FARM COTTAGES.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19891, 21 May 1936, Page 10

FARM COTTAGES.

HOUSING FOR MARRIED MEN. , (From our Parltameman' Corresnonflent.) \VELLINGTON, Wednesday. , A suggestion that the Government ! should arrange for advances to farmers for the construction of cottages I on their farms so that they would be . able to employ married men instead of isingle men only through lack of ac- ; rommoclation was made by Mr A. C. A. [Sexton (IntlepcndenL—Couutry Party. lt'ranklin) In notice of a question to the Minister of Agriculturle, the Hon. \\‘. Lee Martin, in the House of Re—preseutnth es to—rla‘y. “ Such a scheme would be a. great advantage from the point, of viowvof the elm'xlnyer, omplm‘f‘o and the State," sand Mr vaton, " inm‘ “ould have to.be taken to rurewnt ruortgagees holding it up. This might. be done 'withnut. Injustice tn mortgazpss b)‘ making the amount of thP advance a prior statutory rhsu‘gc on thP land in r-nnsidF-ration of ”19 imprhwmeuts effected tn such land." - )lr Smase emphasised that under th proposed legiilation there could be Ino auctions \\'tthnut thorough r‘onsid:m‘atlon hy a nulgiwtrate. It would he -loft to the sense of Mimosa of magis‘tmtes to decide how much a tenant [could pay. i It “as also sought to Check ”19 ex‘ploitation of tenants by landlords \\'ho ,snught to take advantage of the work—tcl‘s‘ inrl‘eased “ages.