STATE HOUSES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 38, 24 November 1937, Page 4

STATE HOUSES.

SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS MADE ASHBURTON’S FIRST QUOTA. The twelve houses that form the State Housing Department’s first quota for Ashburton are well under way, substantial progress having been made by the large number of workmen engaged. The last of the batch is well advanced and practically all that has to be done to the first of the group is the interior work. At the same time it will be some weeks before any of the houses are ready for occupation. They already make a vast difference in the appearance of the locality, for they are all very sclidly built structures, each with a tiled roof in the new colour design, while no two are alike as to outward appearance. _

The first house at the north end of the group in William Street is of brick, then there is a brick house with a. cement surfacing, then three wooden units, next a double brick unit and a wooden house that occupies the corner section. In Princes Street, counting from east to west, there are two brick dwellii'fTs. Then the are two houses which are not con .s necl with the Government scheme, then conn s a wooden house and the last one is of brick.

Tenders for twelve more houses for the same locality have been called and it is said that these, g; nor illy, are much larger than the gro i p now being constructed. A new road is to bo laid down for the second quota, making the State scheme into one block. Considerable interest is being taken in the houses and it is believed the allocation among applicants will be made in the near future.