WORKERS' DWELLINGS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 May 1916, Page 4

WORKERS' DWELLINGS.

Borough Councils we empowered by iho Municipal Corporations Act to erect for the occupation of workers employed or resident in boroughs any buildings suitable for workers' dwellings, or may acquire buildings by purchase or otherwise, and render them suitable for the same purpose, the letting to be in the hands of the Council. By section 52 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Aot, 1913, Councils are further empowered in regard to workers' dwellings. The section provides that a Council may (1) let land t) a worker for the purpose of ereoting a worker's dwelling; (2) advance money to a woxiter to enable him to acquire land and build a worker's dwelling thereon; (8) sell to a worker ■ny separate worker's dwelling. Provision is made for the repayment of advances and the payment of advances and the payment of purchase-money hy ! instalments.