GOVERNMENT HOUSES AT MIRAMAR

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 27, 27 October 1920, Page 8

GOVERNMENT HOUSES AT MIRAMAR

POSSESSION OF FIRST ONE TAKBN ON SATURDAY.

The first of the Government houses at Miramar to be sold was taken possession of on Saturday last. This was the westernmost of that group of reinforced con : crete houses, situated on Broadway wear the Miramar Gold Club's houst, a few hundred vards away from the city boundary. Others of the same group are liein" finished off, and will be taken possession of within a few days or weeks, as they become ready for use, Mr. J. 11. Cr IJowley (Secretary of the Labour Department) stated yesterMy that there were about three hundred and iifty applicants for houses on the 'books, and tbes>> would be accommodated as nearly as was thought desirable in the order _in wlii.'li tIA» applications had been revived, special consideration might be given in certain cases of particular hardshp, but ronerally the order of "first come, first served' would be observed in allotting ii», houses. In order to prevent anything in tlilo nature of traffic in. If e '« the Govcrnniont had that 110 purchaser could receive the title (keds of his property within ten years from ll.<time he took possession, 'but such provision did not prevent an applicant pnyinf, tlw full amount of the purchase if he desired to do so. One of the. groat advantages of possession of those houses in the near future would be tha l ,r ° vl " sion by tho Education Board of a - no up-to-date brick school, which was already under course of construction on the block of land directly opposite* the houses Broadway. Until that sclioo was comIted about the middle of next year he children would either Ijnvo to attend he Worser Bav School at tho top of (he hill overlooking the boy mentioned, or the Maramii School, which was a mile away.