NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, 26 July 1919, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

.ass.. WELLINGTON'S HOUSING PROBLEM. —. SEVENTEEN HOUSES TO BE BUILT.** WELLINGTON, this day. The City Council last night, after a somewhat animated discussion, carried a motion to expend £IO,OOO on the erection of seventeen houses on. a piece of the Council's land. Councillor Forsyth, who maintained the scheme wa s immature, and that the (Council should spend (£50.000,; gave notice that the resolution be rescinded.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 from the Labour Bepresentation Committee, in which Jhe committee urged that some notice should be taken by the Council, and the Government of the alarming house famine in Welling- - ton, to the cruel and merciless exploitation of people by house-owners, to tho evil of the bonus system, to the disgraceful, and dilapidated condition of many houses, to the rat plague infesting many buildings, to the serious and dangerous insanitary overcrowding which prevails in many parts of the city, families of five and six being huddled into one room, and to the shameful and heartrending legal eviction of women and children from their homes. WATERSIDERS RESUME,

WELLINGTON, this day. The waterfront trouble, due to the berthing of the Briton, was settled. A diagnosis proved the cases of sickness were not influenza. "The waters'idcrs decided to resume, and work this morning is now proceeding as usual. THE RAILWAY RESTRICTIONS. A SOUTHLAND PROPOSAL. INVERGARGILL, July 25. The Invercargill Chamber of Gonir merce telegraphed the General Manager of Railways, asking if the Chamber guaranteed the Department sixty tons' of coal a week, in addition to the preS sent supply, eould goods traffic be im- ' proved to prevent Southland's trade : stagnating. It also proposed that- .a I citizen's committee, as in Christehurch, should assist the Department by keeping a check on goods carried. THE BLACK LIST. ! WELLINGTON, July 25. | In tho original list of military dei faulters who are being disfranchised I for ten years there wore 2373 names, i Its publication was followed by-a number of protests against wrongful inclusion of individuals, and all . these cases are being investigated by a small committee set up by the minister for I Defence. The first months' investigaI tions resulted in eighteen names, being ! removed from the list, and three being I added. Another amending jlist will shortly be issued, showing alterations to about the same extent.