HOMES FOR MILLION BRITISH WORKERS
Financing Furnishing 011 Instalment Pian MINISTER'S REVIEW (British Official Wireless.) (Received 4, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, June 3. In opening an exhibition of workingelass furniture and equipment organised by the Council for Art and Industry in London, the Minister for Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, said that the process of housing was such that about 1,000,000 people in this country moved last- year into new houses. There was a real need for advice and assistanee which would enable the houses to beeome real homes. There were a number of people who did not possess sufficient furniture and equipment to make their new house into a liome, beeause they had not the means to do so. The local authorities had power under the Housing Act to provide furniture for tenants in sueh cases. A scheme was in operation in Birmingham, which enabled furniture to be supplied to young married couples. At Gateshead, the corporation, through the local retailers, provided furniture and instalment payments were collected each week with the rent. It was noteworthy that the arrears of instalments rwere under 2 per cent. of the amounts due for payment.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 118, 4 June 1937, Page 5
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