Slums in Sydney

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 32, 8 February 1937, Page 6

Slums in Sydney

WOMAN’S WRITER'S CAUSTIC COMMENT. United Press Association—By Elec trio Telegraph.— Copyright. Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 7. Miss Betty Riddell, in the Sunday Sun, after mentioning the commencement of the Housing improvement Board’s efforts to replan the slum areas in Sydney says:— “Everybody seems to know about the slums of Sydney except the people of Sydney. Visitors from overseas are taken by im-named guides through the industrial suburbs and return to tell the world, or their corner of it, that wc bavo here slums as bad as or worse than the slums of London, Glasgow and Belfast. “If a slum is a dirty house in a dirty street where men play cards sitting In the gutter with their boots off and babies cry and lie down with starved dogs, then wo do have slums, and I saw them last week. ‘‘And If a slum is a house with the iron gone from the roof, holes in the floor, dirty paper shredded from the walls, the guttering taken from the roofs by thieves, and dirt and lice and cockroaches on tne floors whose boards are so black and grimed that no scrubbing could get them clean, then we have slums. ’ ’ The Housing Improvement Board’s rebuilding schemes when formulated are to be submitted to the Government.