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Housing. – A great deal of time has been devoted to the subject of overcrowding to
which the rapid spread of the Epidemic, and to some extent its severity, is ascribed.
In January, 1918, the ratepayers of the City sanctioned the raising of a loan of Fifty
Thousand Pounds (£50,000), for the provision of housing accommodation for Municipal
employees in the form of a garden village. The scheme was duly proceeded with and of the
122 cottages to be erected on the sites selected, viz.: Alexandra Road, Maitland, 76 cottages
have already been completed.
After the Epidemic further loans of One Hundred Thousand Pounds (£100,000) and
Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds (£250,000) were authorised by the Ratepayers.
The first-named amount to be utilised for making an advance to a person on security
for the purpose of enabling such a person to erect a dwelling house as a home for himself and
his family ………..
The second-named amount of £250,000 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds), is
to be utilized towards the construction of certain dwellings for the housing of Municipal
employees in extension of the Maitland Garden Village, and upon sites situate upon the slopes
of Table Mountain near Roeland Street, and upon land adjoining Lakeside Stables within Ward
No. 14. This scheme is still under consideration.

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