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ItemAn investigation Into building and planning problems of the tropical regions of Australia and the Territory of Papua New Guinea(University of Melbourne, 1967)
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ItemHousing and migration : a study of housing needs in Geelong with particular reference to influence of migration( 1968)The study of housing and migration had occupied the mind of the author from the time he emigrated from his home town, Oshodi, to Lagos - the Federal Nigeria capital in search of regular employment. His own personal experience, those of friends and relatives, and the ever-increasing number of young rural migrants moving into the few industrialising centres in his country plus the various reports on similar problems in most of the developing countries of the world have induced him to begin to think of how the problem of housing, most especially migrant housing, can be solved. Australia is the second largest migrant receiving country in the world, and so faces a considerable amount of migrant housing. Her method of tackling the problem offers an excellent opportunity for its solution to many of the developing nations which now face a growing problem of rural-urban migration. This particular -housing study on Geelong is an attempt to review and evaluate the housing problem in- a very important migrant centre in Australia. It is geared towards an assessment of the problem, how it is tackled and how the State and the National housing policies and programmes can be adopted, with modifications where necessary, to suit the solution of similar problems especially in the developing countries of the world. I acknowledge the graduate scholarship granted to me by the Australian Commonwealth Government without which this study might not have been possible. The basic survey of this research was in the form of postal questionnaire, it was conducted in the months of Sally to September 1966, The author's thesis committee members and Dr. S. B. Hammond of the Department of Psychology were particularly helpful with suggestions in connection with the preparation of the questionnaire while the department secretariat was co-operative with the arduous task of its arrangement and typing. The number of persons involved with the gathering of data for this study is too large for complete enumeration. The Geelong Municipal. Councils rendered very valuable financial and moral assistance. The Geelong Advertiser and the local 3GL radio were helpful in enabling the project to reach all the homes involved before the questionnaires were distributed. The office of Buchan, Laird, Buchan e Architects m and most especially Mr. Colin Munro, was very co-operative in giving the author an insight into the planning problems in the Geelong Urban Area.- The history of Geelong was most comprehensively narrated by Messrs P, L. Brown and Roy H. Holden. To them all I express my very sincere thanks. Any housing questionnaire would scare most householders off unless it is accompanied with a subtle covering letter. For this I acknowledge the freely given services of Mr. John Handfield of the Image Australia. Pty. Ltd. It was not without difficulty that a reasonable number of the questionnaires was received back duly completed. In some cases, it involved door-to-door visits and in this respect the contributions of Misses Mary Wilton and Jenny Hall will long be remembered. My very humble but sincere thanks goes: to the staff of the Education Research Department of the University and most especially to Mrs. L.D. Jones. who patiently put me through the computer analysis of the data; to the staff of the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics in Melbourne and Canberra for providing the statistical data particularly of the 1966 unpublished census, and to the Housing Commission, Victoria for providing me with the detailed plans of their houses in Geelong.