Housing Shortage In Wellington
"PISGUSTED" (Wellington): | As a new-comer may fF he allowed space in your paper to say a few words about the housing shortage in Welling- |} ton. I came down to the |! Capital to live several months "aera ago, and & knew that theshortage was very bad, but | had no idea how bad it was. For months [ have been searching almost every day for a house, and without any luck at all. It appears that the only. houses to be procured are in the £5 a week class, and what working man can afford to pay that amount? The situation in Wellington is a scandal, and the Government should tackle Wellington as a séparate problem altogether. State houses are all very well, but they are not being put up nearly fast énough. The Government should institute a big-scale programme of workers’ flats, as several Continental cities have done. { have seen ‘very little In the papers. recently about the shortage. 1 hope the "Record" is ative to it,
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Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 30, 6 January 1939, Page 24
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168Housing Shortage In Wellington Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 30, 6 January 1939, Page 24
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