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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 57, 1 December 1919, Page 3

STRAIGHT TALK. FOK EI.ECTOKS. HOMES TOK THE PEOPLE. . The need for a comprehensive, sound end .statesmanlike solution of the housing problem is one of (lie most pressing dick!* of New Zealand tn-dn.v. Tin , l(c----fnriii Gdvrrtimciil. in its ollorls to |i <i- ! (luce a scheme likely to win votes, lin* ] been able to think of nolhin; better ii'ian the old Liberal men cure, tilie Workers' Dwellings Act. decked out with a Tew new frills. The new situation demands an entirely new measure, and to Sir I Joseph Ward belongs tlv credit of uiie | proposal to provide comfortable homes which may ht* purchased fof 10'. a week (as against 15s. to ,61 under the Reform Act). The financial basis of (she Liberal scheme is eminently found. Soino of Hie, people's money, deposited in the Post Olfiec Savin.is Hank, is to 1:e used eacli year to provide homes for Mic people. This mousy can lie lent at 31 per cent., inclndiii;' sinking fund for repayment, a.-> njainst 5 per cent., for interest under the li'.'lorim.T.v , Ac!. \ vote for Sir Josepli Ward's pian. What will you do?—Advl.