The colossal problems facing civic authorities in the industrial city of Detroit were outlined in a talk to the New Education Fellowship (Canterbury Group) by Miss K. Turner. Among these problems some of the most serious concerned the housing of the working population in the city, which in 1919 had a population of 500,000 and today has a population of more than two and a half million. When Miss Turner visited the city at the end of last year she inquired about numbers of caravans that were used as dwelling-places, quite without sanitation, on a section in the heart of the city. She was told that the civic authorities had no power to turn the caravaners out. “I wonder,” she said, “if the reason was that the firm that made the caravans was more powerful than the civic authorities.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1940, Page 3
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