BUILDING SUBSIDY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 285, 13 September 1933, Page 6

BUILDING SUBSIDY

APPLICATIONS IN ASHBURTON. STRUCTURES TO COST £49,000. OVER FORTY NEW DWELLINGS. WAGES TOTAL OVER £16,000. A sum of £16,320 17s lid in wages in the building trade will be distributed among workmen in the Ashburton County in the next few weeks if alt the applications for the Unemployment Board's subsidy on building are granted. Over £14,490 of this will be spent in Ashburton Borough, £1298 in Rakaia, and £530 in Methven. This is a direct result of the scheme instituted by the Board with the object of finding employment for tradesmen who in the past two years have been on the unemployment register.

The scheme closed at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and in Ashburton County the total applications for subsidy was 141. Of this number 121 were made in Ashburton Borough, eleven in Methven and nine in Rakaia. The cost of the building mentioned in: the applications is estimated to be £48,996 13s lOd, of which the cost of labour is £16,320 17* lid. The amount of subsidy from the Unemployment Board's funds applied for is £5564 Is 2d. The Ashburton applications involve buildings estimated to cost £43,475 16s lOd, with a labour cost of £14,491 18s lid, and a subsidy of £4830 12s lOsf There are oyer 40 new dwellings or large buildings included in the Ashburton applications, the remainder being for additions and alterations. Since Friday morning, when the announcement was made that the scheme would be closed after five days, there have been 53 applications in Ashburton, 20 of them reaching the Post Office yesterday, 14 of ' them after 3 o'clock. Twenty of the applications received since Friday morning concerned new dwellings. Details of the applications, the total cost of buildings, the cost of labour (included in the larger figure) and the amount of the subsidy involved, respectively, in the three centres in Ashburton County are as follow:

Pence have been omitted from these figures.

THE DOMINION APPLICATIONS. SUM OF £3,000,000 MENTIONED. WELLINGTON, September 12. The rush in Wellington to take advantage 'of the building subsidy has been intense during the last few days. To-day there was a final rush, 120-1 applications being lodged, more than in the month previous to the intimation that the scheme was to close down. The total estimated cost of the works covered by to-day's applications was £50,265 3s lOd, the estimated labour cost being £17,164 lis, ancHth© estimated subsidy £6255 19s 4d. The New Zealand totals are not yet available, applicants being allowed to exercise their rights in every city, town and village up till 5 p.m. to-day, so that there is bound to bo a stream of applications received by the Unemployment Board for the next day or two. The work of going through these applications, classifying them and securing the Board's approval or otherwise may easily take more than a week. Up till Friday last the total number of applications received by the Board from all parts, of New Zealand was 5702, representing an expenditure of £2,637,000. That means more than £1,000,000 for labour, the subsidy on which will run into six figures. It is expected that the total estimated cost of the buildings received up to and including to-dav all over the country will exceed the' £3,000,000 mark. BIG WORKS PROPOSED. CHRISTCHURCH, September 12. To-day there was a last-minute rush of applicants for the building subsidy. Included Avas an application for a job worth £25,000 for winter show purposes, and another worth £50,000. The purpose has not been disclosed. To-day applications numbered 272, and yesterday 241. The value represented was £169,880 with a wages cost of £63,335.- The total in Christchurch to date is 1242 applications valued at £718,416, with a wages cost of £252,262. Approvals number 460, and refusals 35.

£• 6. £ s. £. s. Asliburton: 121 43,475 16 14,491 18 4830 12 Rakaia: 9 3,911 14 1,298 6 530 12 Methven 11 1,609 2 530 13 203 5 141 £48,996 13 £16,320 17 £5564 1