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Letter to the Editor
 
Newquay's Greatest Want

Sir,- What is wanted at Newquay is from fifty to sixty workmen’s cottages. They should be built out of the rates; the Council to collect both rent and rates, which will cover the money borrowed on the cottages – say from £10,000 to £15,000. The number of cottages and the class of the cottages to be left to the Urban District Council to decide. The ground rent should be moderate, and the houses don’t require sea views, or any particular frontage. These places would be left for builders to continue terraces for the accommodation of summer visitors. If the above scheme be adopted it will be one of the best things that the Council took in hand since the town came under the control of the Local Government Board. It will be giving full employment to the working classes, as well as to builders, and there is not a business house in Newquay but what will be benefited by it. It is to be hoped the Council will adopt the above scheme. Yours, etc.

A NATIVE

 
Contributed by Pauline Pickup, OPC Newquay

Source:- Cornish Guardian, Friday, January 13th, 1911