HOUSING SURVEY.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 314, 21 December 1936, Page 3

HOUSING SURVEY.

REMEDIAL MEASURES.

Plan For Fuhiro Comtructicn Under Way. Frees Association-Copyright. t . ■ t . Wellington, Last Night. ' Referring to the housing survey, the. Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J Savage, eaid to4ay that a good deal of misapprehension seamed to exist about the matter. To a point ho hgrteed with the Wellington City Cohpcil when it declared hat the need for housing was so obvious that a housing survey was scarcely necessary. The Government had been well aware Of the shortage of housing bUt a cltmour had gone Up from the Preih of Naw Zealhhfl and from many local bodies sttbssing the necessity of securing A Purvey as a preliminary to cohairtiction. ■ While the Qovbmtnent had hot retardefl thh preparation of its schemes in any way it had been considered deeirablo th gitb local bodies the ihiehlifery/ poorer to undertake a survey kt the earliest possible Blomehh It hud MeVer been intended that tha cbhiplete area of every city ehaWaße euA'eyed and the Ministry' of Housing would readily- agree to attUuAtm Wttnirtlohs. Iti Ai basi fSovierhnfenta had done ttlbirfe thkn prdvide foir .A'eW cdniVrubtloA tint it was the purpose of the present Government hot only to prbvfdh ibh h'ew constrUction. but to plan remedial .rieaslifds in regard to areas. A survey of these btOdtioe invaluable material ahd if thb survey were limited t 6 aTSai the ; cost of the local authority would not be excessive. That <kd Set mean that there was to-whit for the survey I tb eiigAge In a brogramme of conilMM bi the Part dL any local A ateidy stream of preliminary inquiries Were coining in frdih. Ideal bodies ffbijL al! over • NBW Zealand and it seemed Hkely that very early In the New Year a large number of |mall.schemes would be undertaken. TWO Ibfcdl bodies, one at Green Island and one at Alexandra, had already carried resolutions under the Housing Act and others were preparing to carry resolutions. Many inquiries were being received from dairy factories regarding the offer of money at 3 per cent, for the housing of employees and one loan had already been grafted.