HOUSING CONDITIONS
OUTSPOKEN COMMENT. CHRISTCHURCH CRITICISM. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, July 27. After congratulatory'references to the City Council staff on tile efficient manner in which the housing survey had been carried out and after several councillors had expressed their grati fication at the information disclosed by the survey, Cr J. S. Barnett seriously disturbed the serenity of the City Council last evening by his outspoken references to the conditions under which some people Jived in Christchurch. “Little better than dog kennels” was his description of their quarters.
Commenting on the report on the survey tabled by the chief inspector, Ci - Barnett said that councillors would be living in a fool’s paradise if they allowed the idea to go out that Christchurch w r as free from any unhealthy or unwholesome areas.
“I am hoping that the council will do something to remedy the unwholesome defects in our housing system,” lie said. As an example of the conditions to which he referred, Cr Bar nett quoted a property with a capital value of £12,675, and an annual rental of £2754, or 21 per cent., which was extracted from the 106 occupants who occupied the 99 dwelling units. I* this property were demolished, he added, a very considerable number of the deserving poor would be thrown on to the street.
The Mayor (Mr J. W. Beanland) said he rather regretted that as a result of Cr Barnett’s remarks it should go abroad that there were .terrible places in Chistehurch. The position was to some extent satisfactory as was disclosed by the figures. “Of course w r e have these places, as mentioned by Or Barnett, and I feel as he does about it,” the Mayor added. “I have thought that the houses built by the Government are tuo expensive for poorer people and I am glad to hear that it is intended to make provision for old age pensioners. Christchurch as a whole will stand up to the rest of New Zealand as far as the standard of its homes is concerned.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 28 July 1937, Page 7
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340HOUSING CONDITIONS Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 28 July 1937, Page 7
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