HOMES FOR POLICE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2199, 11 July 1914, Page 6

HOMES FOR POLICE

;:?■ }pi~[/j ;: ;:/ ; >v; : -;> ' SUGGESTION'FROM: COJIMIS. ' : 4 ; SIONER.. ,V,.;;;-:,,•-.- ■ "A's tiie 'Department grants annually for louse allowances to married members of tlio Force , who are not provided with free quarters is eteadilj; increasing year by_.year J ".I- beg ..to suggest'that the['Government'.' consider the advisability of erecting!cottages .for married men in all : towns 'whero the Department has suitable sites available for the purpose (says the Commissioner of Police in his annual'report). There are a number of police stations at which suitable'quarters for married meil have already been pro rided, arid as the men occupying these . quarters' ■ are consequently always at hand in cases of emergency the arrangement is very advantageous to the Department. Moreoyer, take ; much greater interest in theii , .work when' living near the;station, than they do wlieii they liaye to'tramp' a, mile or more to arid from the station when coming on arid going offduty'.' ."For many years past the.Government has been expending considerable, sums of money in various localities iii providing workers' homes, arid I: am of opinion that if a similar'scheme applied to ; this could: be carried out very satisfactory results would' accrue. In.; providing- workers' homes the land upon which the houses are;erectsd has to be purchased, but this.would not be necessary in. the case; of Hhis Department, as there' are ample ■ Govern-ment-site's.lying idle in many.'; 'towns.Th'ei total amount which -the ment has paid in house allowances'to members of the Force during ;the'pasti ten years'is the annual esperi; diture under this heading haying ; creased from; £3500 in 1904 to; V£10,280 r last:year." V '~:■. ;' ":.-' ; : ; '^•'." ■' - :