WORKERS' DWELLINGS.
AN INTERESTING SOUVENIR. An _ interesting publication has just been issued by the Department of Labour, to be given as a souvenir of the Auckland Industrial, Mining, and Agricultural Exhibition. Later copies will bo printed for all Government Departments. and for sending abroad. tlin publication deals with the Workers' Dwellings Act, 1910, and is profusely illustrated with cottages erected in different parts of New Zealand .under that Act, together with' plans prepared by the Government architect. A copy of the publication, which is handsomely got up, was presented to a Dominion roporter 011 Saturday, and no more convincing proof of the attractiveness of the dwellings ercoted by the Government could bo shown. Aa is well known, legislation was first passed in 1905 to enable bona fide workmen to obtnin dwollings at reasonable rentals. A strong desire was evinced by tho applicants for these homes to obtain the freehold. and the Act of 1910 was passed, which enabled tho workers to purchase the. dwellings outright hv way of a system of payment of weekly or montlily instalments, extending over a period of 25J- years. Sinco tho incoption of tho Act in 1903 298 dwellings havo been erected.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1956, 13 January 1914, Page 8
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197WORKERS' DWELLINGS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1956, 13 January 1914, Page 8
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