HOUSES FOE WORKERS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10230, 8 January 1927, Page 5

HOUSES FOE WORKERS

RAILWAY DEPARTMENT'S

SCHEME

The New Zealand Railways have hade a step towards solving the housing proolcm for the departmental employees in Hastings by establishing' fifteen beautiful cottages, each on its own section of nearly a quarter-acre and situated in Willow park road and round the corner into Jervois Street, the rental being one day’s earnings of the occupier. Thus a railway servant earning £1 a day would nay that much in rent and the man drawing 12/6 a day would only pay that amount for a similar accommodation. The cottages consist of three bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen and dining-room (combined), and although the bedrooms are not very large they are compact and comfortable. The living-room provided with an open fireplace, is more spacious and "the kitchen-dining-room, amply supplied with cupboards, including an airing cupboard, affords full accommodation for. all requirements. The rooms have picture rails fixed and are fitted with blinds, whilst the hall leading to'the kitchen js appointed with hat and cloak racks, Each house is, of course, connected with the borough water and sewage systems. The ground plans cf the houses are tlia same, but the frontages, which are all very pretty in appearance, are different, so that the view presented to the eye is varied and. pleasing.