RURAL HOUSING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 164, 11 June 1940, Page 6

RURAL HOUSING.

KAIRANGA COUNCIL’S ACTION. APPLICATION FOR LOAN. A resolution that application be made to the Local Government Loans Board for authority to raise £IO,OOO under the Rural Housing *■ Act was passed at the meeting of thfef Kairanga County Council to-day. The loan will enable the council to provide money for houses for farm workThe clerk (Mr N. I. Nielsen) repi. rted that two objections to the loan had been received One was from Mr J. Kyle, of Aokautere, who wrote saying that the Act as at present framed did 3iot male© the position clear on several points and that, while the present was not a time to object to anything that might assist in increasing production, he thought that the council should take care not to do anything that would commit the ratepayers to such a proposal. There was no guarantee that even if the houses .were erected the employees would care to stay long at farm v ork, and why should the whole county be rated .as security for a few houses which might be unoccupied for a good part of the time ? The Fitzherbert riding had had a lesson when it had to pay the rates for the Massey College and Research Institute, he added. Mr J. McMurray, of Whakarongo, also forwarded an objection to the loan. The chairman (Cr. W. R. Hopcroft) said that the objections would be forwarded to the authorities in Wellington. The council did not make any comment on them.