A "SLUM" SCHEME.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 242, 18 November 1909, Page 4

A "SLUM" SCHEME.

:i !Io the Editor. -Sir, —1 would, crave the uso of a small '• .-pace in your paper to 'bring to the n<tiee of the public the fact that a * ->.um is iu course of formation in Xuw Plymouth by the placing of at least three cottages) 011 a quarter-acre section 111 Young Street. It would not be so . had if the buildings were new, but they arc not. One of them is a wretched old place that was recently thrown out J l>v a linn in town, because it was couriered unlit to be further occupied by one of its workers—and when a company takes that action you can depend upon it that the thing must be pretty bad. Another is the old {stewards' stand from Hit! racecourse. These two will occupy an eighth of an acre. (Joodness knows what the capitalist is going to dump oti the remaining eighth. As his Worship tlm -Mayor lives close by lie ought to have a look and -ee if it i<int'<uiiis with )iis beautifying ideas, or with hi< comMMMLsense. I hear that I lie borough engineer has not issued a permit vet, and it is ti> 1,-e hujji'd that, lie wmi'l. b:- afi'aid tu refuse heeauv the people inlcreMed arc in authority.—J! am, elf., W'l-ST KNI>.