DUNEDIN "SLUMS."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8398, 12 April 1907, Page 5

DUNEDIN "SLUMS."

♦.—- By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, April 11. Replying to the remarks made by Mr Cooper, President of the Trades and Labour Conference, with respect to Dunedin's slums, Mr J. F. Arnold, M.H.R., says they are altogether exaggerated. Comparisons are always odious, but as he was not the first to institute comparisons between Dunedin and Wellington, he repeated that he would prefer old men or old married couples living by themselves in one or two-roomed houses than several families living in one residence of a few rooms, such as exists in Wellington, the result of which must have a low moral tone on the whole community. If the Wellington representatives like mudthrowing, as between cities, plenty of that can be done which will not show to advantage Wellington city as compared with the "Church-ridden city" of Dunedin. Mr Arnold quotes figures to show that small houses are not being built here in proportion to large ones. From 1903 to 1906 one and two roomed houses had decreased by 166, and three and four roomed houses by eighteen, while in five and six roomed houses there was an increase of no less than 304. He had been struggling hard to bring pressure to bear on the Government to erect a suitable class of homes in Dunedin. Workers can only afford to pay a rental of six shillings to eight shillings a week. This is the best way of keeping old people and workers.

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