SLUM CLEARANCE.
RESULTS OF BRITISH EFFORTS
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Aug. 11. The Government’s great slum clearance and rehousing campaign is still gatiiering momentum. During July local authorities declared clearance areas comprising 4760 houses and representing a displacement of 19.446 people against 4747 houses and 10,1 1 3 people in June. The total number of Louses in confirmed orders is now 151.597, involving the displacement of 649,611 people. At the end of June there were 64.108 houses under construction against 61.954 at the end of A fay and 60.326 at the- end of April. The great majority of these houses are being provided for rehousing people displaced in connection with the slum-clearance scheme.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 217, 13 August 1937, Page 7
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113SLUM CLEARANCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 217, 13 August 1937, Page 7
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