DIRECT ACTION
THE STATE HOUSING
DEPARTMENT TAKING HAND
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. To meet the intense -demand for housing, the Department intends to enter the building: trade, accord* ing to an announcement made today by the Minister (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong). He said that a system under which wages gangs would be employed would Be put into operation within a few weeks. The Department would compete with contractors, and a close watch would be maintained to see how far this innovation would be successful. The system will begin in Wellington. The Minister also said that an inducement would be offered to the trade, unions to form building parties. The Department was also prepared to assist unions taking up this class of work to employ extra men .and train them in trades.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 98, 28 April 1939, Page 11
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134DIRECT ACTION Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 98, 28 April 1939, Page 11
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