ALLOCATION OF STATE HOUSES
Ballot System Dropped
URGENCY OF CASES TO BE CONSIDERED
By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 13. The ballot system in the allocation of State houses to tenants has been changed, the Minister of Housing, Air. Armstrong, said today. So far as it is possible houses will be let according to the urgency of the cases aad the circumstances of applicants. .Air. Armstrong said complaints had lieen made that, persons who had been living in good circumstances had gained houses under the ballot system, whereas others who were practically living in hovels and often with large* families were unable to gain houses.
Every endeavour would be made to allocate houses as finished in order of the urgency of cases. Some persons in Auckland and Wellington were living under appalling conditions, and the department had a body of inspectors who would visit tlie applicants’ , present homes and report on the conditions.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 144, 14 March 1939, Page 10
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152ALLOCATION OF STATE HOUSES Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 144, 14 March 1939, Page 10
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