STATE HOUSES
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High Rentals Explained By M.P.
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PALMERSTON^., This Day. ''-Can you explain the necessity' for charging such extremely high rentals for the houses being built by the Government in Palmerston North?" was a question asked Mr. Ormond Wilson, M.P.,' at the conclusion of his public address in the Municipal hall last night. Eeplying, Mr. Wilson denied that the rents were extremely high. Admittedly, they were in excess of what relief workers or those on the lowest wage could pay to-day, but the Government was looking to the future. They were good honses and were going to last for 60 years. The Government could have built cheaper houses, within the range of the relief worker to-day, but it would not have been proper to build houses on the false economy that New Zealand was going to have relief | workers always. The Government was j desirous that the houses should be a j credit to it and to New Zealand in the | years to come, and by the time that it ' ' had pulled down the slums existing today, the persons occupying the houses now being built would be the lowestpaid workers.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 171, 6 August 1937, Page 9
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194STATE HOUSES Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 171, 6 August 1937, Page 9
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