HOUSE FAMINE IN WELLINGTON.
«s> ERECTION OF WORKERS' HOMES. COUNCIL TO SPEND £10,000. (Pμ Uhetsd Pbess Assootatioh.) . WELLINGTON, July 26. The City Council last night, after a somewhat animated discussion, carried a motion to expend £10,OCO on the erection of 17 houses on a piece of the council's land. Or Forsyth, who maintained that the scheme was immature, and that the council should spend £50,000, gave notice that the resolution be rescinded. At the same meeting the council received a strongly-worded Communication on the subject of housing from the Labour Representation Committee, in which the committee urged that some notice should be taken by the council and the Government of the alarming house famine in Wellington; to the cruel, merciless ex> ploitation of the people by house owners; to the evil of the bonus system; to the disgraceful, dilapidated condition of many houses; to the rat plague, which was infesting many buildings; to the serious, dangerous, and insanitary overcrowding which was prevalent in many parts of the city, families of five and six being huddled into one room; and to the shameful, heartrending legal eviction of women and children from their homes.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17688, 28 July 1919, Page 6
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192HOUSE FAMINE IN WELLINGTON. Otago Daily Times, Issue 17688, 28 July 1919, Page 6
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