SHORTAGE OF HOUSES.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1919, Page 4

SHORTAGE OF HOUSES.

EFFECT ON LABOR SCARCITY. The engineer wrote to the New Plymouth Borough Council last night on the matter of the difficulty of getting labor for tarring work on account of the housing difficulty, and suggesting some scheme of providing accommodation for men, ■ In the course of the discussion on the question it was suggested that it might b <>Jjjfible to get souie of the huts from theWTauherenikan Camp. Cr. Collis suggested that it might be possible to get the use of some of the iron buildings on the Petroleum Company's property, in which accommodation might bo provided for single men. Cr. Sykes referred to what he -had seen done in America in the wav of providin" temporary accommodation for visitors during holiday seasons, and he thought something might be done on the same lines here to relieve the shortage of labor. D

The Mayor said the chairman of the Housing Committee was away at the present time, and he suggested that Cr Sykes should be a sub-committee to consider ways and means of providing accommodation for workers for the council on the dormitorj principle, with a common dininjr hall, during the next month or two. This proposal was adopted, Cr. Sykes to confer with the engineer as to the actual requirements.