WORKERS' DWELLINGS.
The alternative of a State housing olicy is a municipal housing policy, but unforunately the municipalities in New Zealand are not very progressive, and perhaps they have already sufficient urgent calls fer expenditure to absorb all the loans that the ratepayers can b-3 induced to 3\itlv?ris<?. A fuller extension of the municipal franchise might inJuoc a more progressive spirit, but that is not the question of immediate importance. The "Lytctlton Titr.es ' hypes the Government will look into the matter again. By their decision not to erect more dwellings for workers the Government have thrown ths poorer people back on their own resources, and their position will soon bfc as serious as ever it was.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9172, 21 August 1908, Page 4
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116WORKERS' DWELLINGS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9172, 21 August 1908, Page 4
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