WORKERS' DWELLINGS.
A correspondent asks for particulatr® concerning the Workers' -Dwellings Act. This measure was -passed in the last isession of Parliament, ostensibly with the object of relieving the congestion in large centres. Under its provisions a worker may obtain a dwelling on the payment of a -deposoib of £lO, and 5 per cent, on .the balance. The dwelling, however, must be erected on land iset apart by the Government for workers', dwialilings. . So far as Majs>terton is oonoerned, .there is not .such a congestion as to warrant the erection of workers' homes. • Rents, gezierally .speaking, are not abnormally \ high, and there cs not & scarcity of] houses, although there has 'been a i keen demand of late for the better ) clasis of residence. If workers de- I sire to make their ihomes their own, I they ishouMi take advantage of the advances, to. workers provisions of J the'.State-guaranteed Advances Act. J
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10244, 22 May 1911, Page 4
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151WORKERS' DWELLINGS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10244, 22 May 1911, Page 4
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