STATE HOUSES
Question Of Priorities
Dominion Special Service. AUCKLAND, October 3. The opinion that the scheme under which 50 per cent, preference was given to returned servicemen in the, allocation, of State houses was not working out, as well as bad been expected was expressed by the president of lhe Auckland Returned Services Association, Mr. A. I’. I’ostlewaite. He considered that the preference should be increased to 75 per cent, at least. > Under the scheme, he said, halt the State houses available ■ were allocated to returned men and half to civilians. It had happened that the number of exservicemen for whom the lack of housing was a hardship was always more than half the nunflier of houses being allocated and this surplus was constantly growing. Although many civilians had been waiting for a long time for State houses, he thought their hardship was rarely as great, as that of the .married returned man who had come back with" no home Io go to. Even if these civilians had to wait still longer, he thought their claim was not as strong as that of the men who had fought.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 7, 4 October 1943, Page 6
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188STATE HOUSES Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 7, 4 October 1943, Page 6
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