MINOR DECREASE.
PRIVATE BUILDING.
MR. LEE GIVES FIGURES.
SUGGESTION DENIED.
(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.)
WELLINGTON", this day.
Denying the suggestion that there had been a steep falling off in private building as a result of the State housing scheme, the Under-Secretary in charge, Mr. J. A. Lee, M.P., quoted figures for building permits for dwellings showing a total of 3020 for the year ended August, 1930, compared with 3404 for the year ended August, 1937.
On August 31, 1937, said Mr. Lee, the building permit totals jad not taken into account 875 Government houses which had reached the permit stage. Had those houses been taken into account, the permit Sigurcw for the 12 months would have been 719 above those for the 12 months preceding the establishment of State housing construction.
"Future speed will be determined l>y the amount of building labour available," said Mr. Lee. "Builders' journal* to hand from the United States, Australia and (ireat Britain draw attention to a reduction in building owing to high costs. New Zealand is one country showing continued upward progress."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 236, 5 October 1937, Page 8
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