Government Houses

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 88, 30 April 1937, Page 7

Government Houses

RATEPAYER.

(To the Editor). Sir,— 1 agre© with your correspondeht, iVlr. Barley, so far as the tenants who take these houses can alford to pay the rental aiid meet th© additional ouigomgs on the electrical and other cquipinent with which they are to be htted ; but there is a vei'y true sayiiig which must be very tamiliaf to Mr. Batley, that "oue must cut one's coat accoruing to one's cloth.'1 From his own adniission of the ross of six acres of land in the borough of Hastings, it appealed to me, on reading his letter, that he couid not have ,sno\vn due regard to the cloth available when he uecided upon a six-acre coat. It Bounds a bit speculative to me. As bne of the old scnool who proceeded on the lines of "what we have y?e hold," and who now lives in a house of his own througii foregoing some of the champagne amenities when on a bigger income and saving a few shillings to purchase a liome wiiich 1 could, cali my own, I trust that applicants for the State houses will go cicsely into the hnancial aspect beiore saddiing themselves with obligations which thej have no prospect of discharging.— Yfuirs A-hf *

Hastings, April 28, 1937.