STATE HOUSES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22987, 16 September 1936, Page 8

STATE HOUSES

"MASS PRODUCTION" TYPE

FEARS IN GARDEN SUBURB (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sept. 15. While expressing ~ -mpathy with the Government in its efforts to solve the housing shortage problem in the Dominion, the Lower Hutt Borough Council made it plain that it wanted no " mass production houses in 'the garuen suburb of New Zealand," and that there was, in fact, no housing shortage at all in Lower Hutt. Mainly on these grounds, and also on the ground that the-Government had been rushed into its announced housing scheme without sufficient consideration or propel advice, the council refused to pas a motion pledging it to co-operate with the Government. A VARIETY OF DESIGNS PRIME MINISTER'S ASSURANCE (Per United Press Association? WELLINGTON, Sept. 13. "The Mayor of Lowei Hutt may rest assured that the Government, is going to do nothing that will spoil his garden suburb," said tne Prime Minister (Mr Savage), com menting on the discussion by the Lower Hutt Borough Council with reference to the Government's house-building scheme. " The houses we build," Mr Savage said, "will be real homes, and nobody will be able to point at them and say. 'They are Government houses.' We are not going to build houses according to one pattern. I venture to say the houses we build at Lower Hutt will be on - par with what are there now The Government will also see to it tha* the sections on which the houses are built will be large enoug/ to enable the people living in then to have a decent garden" Invited to comment regarding the payment of rates on State-owned houses, the Minister of Finance (Mi Nash) said he made the point quite r-lear when moving the second reading of the State Advances Corporation Act in the House r Represen tatives on May 28 Le then stated: Our proposals provide for rates to >je paid to the local authority when a house is let. so that in respect of properties of which the State is the mortgagee in possession or of which the State is agent for the mortgagor that are let at ordinary rentals full rates will be paid ( to the local authorities rwir-PT-ne'" "