The Times. Published on Tuesday and Friday Afternoons. Motto: Public service. TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1920. ACCOMMODATION NEEDED.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 532, 18 May 1920, Page 2

The Times. Published on Tuesday and Friday Afternoons. Motto: Public service. TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1920. ACCOMMODATION NEEDED.

So much inconvenience and incidental loss to the trade of Pukekohe occurs on account of the shortage of houses and lack of sufficient accommodation of any kind that we make no apology for returning to the subject so frequently. We desire to parade conspicuously every reason for why houses should be built in Pukekohe, and every reason justifying the -Borough Council in going ahead with its small housing scheme. A cast occurred lately which brings out in an unmistakable manner the fact that lack of accommodation adversely affects the town and district. On the advice of the Government Stock Department a fully qualified veterinary surgeon who was looking for a place to resume practice in was persuaded to come to Pukekohe, which district urgently needed a veterinarian. Theman'canie, but after visiting the hotel every boardinghouse he could hear of, and a number of private houses, he was unable to get even a "shake*down." A "Times" man remarked to him that a veterinarian was in demand in the district, and that a live man could build up a good practice. "Yes," was the reply, "but what's the good of that if a person cannot find a place to lay his weary head at night?" This case is not >by any means an isolated one, foi\ it gig no uncommon thing for people having to walk about all night in Plikekohe because they have been unable to secure beds. It world seem as though there is a fortune to be made by anyone enterprising enough to put up a good big accommodation house in Pukekohe. The condition of things we have alluded to is quite normal, therefore there must be a harvest to be gathered at show and race periods. From what we have observed, including the numb<?.' of people who are obliged to share houses between two families, we believe that if one hundred houses were built in Pukekohe to-morrow, they would all be let within a fortnight, mainly by the absorption of present over-pressure locally, and if thore were then any left people would come even from Auckland to get a house. A large, well-kept boardinghouse, where people could always be sure of getting accommodation, would quickly get a name far and wide, and would be well patronised.