WORKERS' DWELLINGS.
The movement to establish workers' homes at Palmerston North appears to be fizzling out. The workers, who were so anxious to be distinguished as such by residence in a particular quarter of the town, have apparently been influenced by their wives to see the error of their ways, and have been helped to a conclusion in the matter ■by the discovery that the price of the ibuildings ■wouldi be' at least a third more than they had expected. Workers' homes will, never he a success, even in "cities, so long as they are lumped together and distinguished from the homes of other law-abiding citizens. They will .be ,an absolute failure in provincial towns, where there are no, slums, and house-rents. ,&re. fairly, reasonable. ; '
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10587, 19 March 1912, Page 4
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125WORKERS' DWELLINGS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10587, 19 March 1912, Page 4
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