Set-back for Cooks' Re-housing Scheme
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The Cook Islands government loan scheme to encourage the building of new houses appeared to suffer a set-back in November when the Legislative Assembly rejected a proposal that land laws be revised.
The revision would have permitted a Maori to or mvp tn lZTfor^hrmrD r o eStrl f te b ° f land for the purpose of building a house, and would have overcome present difficulties of lack of clear title to land by persons keen to take advantage of the scheme.
Loans can be made only where clear title exists, and the persons often in most need of new housing —landless persons in Rarotonga from other islands of the groupf re at P resent unable to obtain a J A . xt was announced at the As-
Zealand 1 was ‘prepared
to make available a fund of up to £150,000, but by a majority of four the Assembly, after a three-day de bate, rejected the proposal to modi fy the law.