WHO WOULD OWN THE HOUSE?
NATIVES AND THE AIURIWAI PAH. Inspector York, in a statement to the Hospital Board last night, wrote: “The Natives at Muriwai Pali themselves seem to quite understand the bad condition of their pah, and many of them own that it is the worst pah on the East Coast. They nbso say they are quite willing to demolish their insanitary buildings, and erect new ones if they could but get the question of who the Land belongs to settled. They say they ar? all interested in the land, hut if they were to build a good house in a short tirno someone else would come along and •say the ground on which it stood belonged to him and take their new house from them. They say it is not fa-ir for them to be made to build under those conditions, or to he turned off their own land if they fail to build under these conditions. They also say if _ the Health Department wishes to improve their pah. why doesn’t it build them better houses, and take the cost out- of the land or let them pay it off in rent.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3711, 21 December 1912, Page 8
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195WHO WOULD OWN THE HOUSE? Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3711, 21 December 1912, Page 8
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