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RURAL HOUSING SCHEME ROTORUA COUNTY VIEW (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) ROTORUA, Wednesday A unanimous decision to take no action under the Rural Housing Act was reached: by the ‘Rotorua County Council at a meeting today. Councillors recognised that the Act was designed to fill a need in the farming community, but they considered the matter was one for the Government to deal with, and that rural dwellers should receive the same consideration as those in towns under the State Housing Act. “ The problem of financing a progressive scheme is most difficult, as many of our applications will be from men whose farms are not sufficiently established to carry the extra financial burden,” said the chairman, Mr H. P. Ford. “Farmers in most need of help will not receive it, as the State will assume it is the local bodies’ duty to provide houses. Those counties which make the venture will only cater for the most secure cases, i leaving the majority of the applicants ! in the class which might truly £> e called forgotten farmers.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21216, 12 September 1940, Page 9
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177DESIGNED FOR FEW Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21216, 12 September 1940, Page 9
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