WORKERS' HOMES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 293, 5 December 1908, Page 2

WORKERS' HOMES.

MUNICIPAL ENTEttPKISK. WELLINGTON'S PLANS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Uist Night. Among the loan proposals for next year which have been passed by the City Council is aa item ''Workers' Homes, Adelaide road, ■, £2700." The Council's plans regarding this matter are not yet settled. Interviewed to-day, the Mayor (Hon.. T. W. Hislop) said: "The idea was that the Council might use part of the old tramway sheds site for the purpose of putting up suitable places for workers. We have also certain properties which we have, acquired for street-widening purposes. We have other schemes in view, but the matter depends to some extent on the Legislature." Mr. Hislop then hinted that the Council might seek powers similar to those conferred on the Glasgow City Corporation for takin" lands and buildings tompnlsorily for workmen's dwellings. That body had power, for instance, to purchase land and buildings for the value of the land alone in eases where the buildings were in the nature of a slum. Of course, that was a power which would need to be carefully safeguarded, and he did not know whether there would be any chance just yet to get that power from Parliament.' The homes should be built in the city at places convenient for the tenants or out in the suburbs. Nothing was definitely settled He thought, however, that a beginning could well be made on the old tramway site in Adelaide road."