HOUSES IN WELLINGTON.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1919, Page 6

HOUSES IN WELLINGTON.

CITY COUNCIL SCHEME. LABOR'S STRONG REPRESENTATIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, July 28. The City Council last night, after a somewhat animated discussion, tarried a motion ,t° expend £IO,OOO on the erection of 17 houses on a piece of the council's lands. ; Councillor Forsyth, who maintained that the scheme was immature and that the council should spend £50,000, gave notice of motion that the resolution be rescinded. ' At the same meeting the council received a jstrongly-worded communication on the subject of housing from the Labor Representation Committee, in which the committee urged that some notice should be taken by the council and the Government of the alarming house famine in Wellington, to the cruel and merciless exploitation of the people by houseowners, tp the evils of the bonus system, to the disgraceful ar.d dilapidated condition of many houses, to the rat plague infesting many buildings, to the serious, dangerous and- 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 heart-rending legal eviction of women and children from their homes.