REHOUSING WORKERS
CHANCE FOR ARCHITECTS
PRINCE OF WALES'S^yiEWg
(British" Official Wireless.)
. ' ■•■'"■ '.' --'• ;-': " .'■':. KUGBY, May 4. At the Royal Academy", banquet tha Prince emphasised the . .■oppqrtunitjr which the great housing- schemes offered to. architects.; "I refer," he said, "to the' rehousing of -thdse;workers who are still unfortunately, .living ia lowly dwellings : and under conditions that they should not be. Tlie rehousing of these people can be achieved only by keeping Tents down to one-fifth or one-sixth of their .wagesy and thiscan be very greatly helped by the co-opera-tion of the architect and the building trade. Eronii some ; stiidy. of -the whole question the solution appears 'to be in simplicity of exterior .and r interior design in order to-provide the most up-to-date modern appliances • embodying conveniences, cleanliness, and -laboursaving..s '. ':■■ _ ... ■'■ . -".' ;. -:-• . :
The Prime Minister, who alsospokej referred to the. improvement in the national situation. He said, that complacency or extravagance were not, ius-
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 9
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148REHOUSING WORKERS Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 9
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