SHORTAGE OF HOUSES.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 May 1920, Page 4

SHORTAGE OF HOUSES.

DWELLINGS FOR TEACBSRS. ~ MOVABLE HOUSES FOR i BACHELORS. The Minister for Education {the Hon. C. J. Parr) recently said the department proposed to begin a modest building programme to supply the wants of teachers by erecting half-a-dozen hduses -for married teachers, who could not find accommodation in the backbloek areas. An interesting experiment, he said, was also baing tried with small movable houses for the accommodation of siftgla , teachers, especially female teachers in remote districts. Often it was found Impossible to get lady teachers to go to certain districts, because of the lack of suitable board. It is to meet such cases tjiat these movable houses are to be ttfed. They will consist of two room merely, and they will be built on wheels or dinners, so that in the event of the school attendance falling a great deal, or the attendance rising sufficiently, to ff»Want the appointment of a married /tealher, and the erection of a new house of a permanent character, the house on wheels may be taken to another pUteo Whore it may be more needed. The idea at present wa? tfcat the movable house for, say, a lady teacher, sfcould be located alongside a farmer'* Residence, or, say, a committee man Y house, i|i order that the teacher might hiN -some protection, and yet might have 4 the same time some privacy and 'confort. This was not always possible under ctxist. mg circumstances in remote districts.