HOUSING PROBLEM.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 3, 1 April 1920, Page 14

HOUSING PROBLEM.

It will interest New Zealanders, the great majority of whom live in wooden bouses, to know that very high encomiums are now being passed on wooden dwellings by English architects. One conlands that a wooden house is far healttuer than any brick or stone structure. "In a wooden house," he writes, "the walls are really a continuous system of yentilating ducts, and it is almost impo&Srble for any jnoisture to penetrate elde the hotise or for any gases to accnMolate, and in a climate very much'wei^ ier t£ian the English houses are found' to ha aa dry after being shut up for a time as they were before," Sixroomed onestorey bungalows, built of wood, are now being quoted in England at between £600 and £f00 complete.