SLUM CLEARANCE

Evening Star, Issue 22453, 25 September 1936, Page 9

SLUM CLEARANCE

IMMEDIATE CAMPAIGN NECESSARY EMINENT MEDICI SPEAKS lUT [Per United Prjeis Association.] WELLINGTON, September 25. “ A crying need of Wellington it to efface the ghettos and the meanness and squalor in Lower Adelaide road and in a part of Te Aro,” said Sir James Elliott, of Wellington, in giving his opinion, as a medical man and a citizen, of the proposal to comf bine the Centennial Exhibition with a city slum clearance project. Sir James added: “ Let ns have the exhibition by all means, but how illogical and absurd it is to hold up alum demolition because of the exhibition. It is a question for the Government; with its town planning scheme, or for the City Corporation. It has come forward too late, yet there are advocates for a further postponement. It will cost too much now,- it is said. Well, it will never cost less, and it has to be done. It may need further legislation, because the failure of town, planning has been everywhere due to the inaction of local authorities, and more coercive powers appear to be necessary.”