FARM WORKERS’ HOUSES
IMPROVEMENTS STOPPING DRIFT. Improved housing as a means of stopping Ihe drift from the land is urged by Dr G. Matthew Fyfe in the annual report on public health in East Fife. Rural housing of a type to induce farm workers to remain on the land is a matter of national importance, the report says. Instructions that, in the course of the next five years, all cottages must be inspected and reported upon if found to be in an unfit condition are taken as evidence of the Government's determination to secure better housing conditions for farm workers.
‘■There is, of course," the report states, "little reason why the standard of housing for rural cottages should be any less than the standard laid down for houses in rural villages. Unfortunately, there are owners of farm cottages who 1 are not .prepared to provide for workers houses of reasonable standard and who resist all appeals. These proprietors are compelling the local authority to have increasing resort to the machinery of the Housing Acts.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1939, Page 3
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174FARM WORKERS’ HOUSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1939, Page 3
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