HOUSES AT 3/ A WEEK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 32, 7 February 1934, Page 6

HOUSES AT 3/ A WEEK.

The fall in tlio cost of building lias enabled a number of rural authorities to build cottages which arc now being let at 3/ a week, exclusive of rates, or even less (says the London "Observer"). The following rural district councils have achieved results which encourage many to hope that the time is coming when the housing of agricultural labourers will be permanently improved. Linton, Melbourn and Newmarket, in Cambridgeshire, Forehoo and Depwade in Norfolk, and Faringdon; in Berkshire, have built between them over 400 houses, which are being let at 3/ per week, exclusive of rates, or less. The loss to the rates is equivalent to less than £3 15/ per house per annum for forty years after crediting the. ioxchequcr contribution of £11 per house under the Act of 1024. The building prices have been as lo.w as £249 in Newmarket for a cottage, containing a living room, [scullery, bathroom and three bedrooms, of 700 square feet super area. Another economical jbouse has been built in Cambridgeshire. It is 'an adaptation of the Ministry of Health rural cottage plan, arid provides for a living room, Iscullery, bathroom, pantry, fuel store, and I three bedrooms.