HOUSE INSPECTION
(To the Editor.) Sir—This Housing Survey Act is.» piece of legislation that has evidently cbme as a surprise to your correspondent, "Inquirer." There are some more surprises in store for easy-going citizens. I fully agree with "Inquirer" regarding violation of one's home privacy. The Act is a legacy from the late Government, and is a pure class measure. It is surprising that our present freedom-preaching Government has adopted and enforced it. Will all homes be intruded upon or only v those of a certain class? Are they to be pried upon in the privacy of their homes as a result of the compulsory inspection by public officials, and requests made for personal, details.' Should one object to the intrusion, the penalty is, as an Auckland citizen found out, a Magistrate's Court one. Well the people are supposed to govern and if this sort of thing is their wish, that -is the end of it. For my part, and in a general ■ disinterested way, I strongly object;to the Act on principle.—l am, etc., G. MORRIS.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 8
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176HOUSE INSPECTION Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 8
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