4000 MEN EMPLOYED.
STATE HOUSING JOBS. REVIEW OF ACTIVITY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Saturday. The progress made with the State housing scheme since its inauguration just over a year ago was reviewed by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary in Charge of Housing, Mr. J. A. Lee, last evenins He said that after 12 months' building activity the numbers engaged in State housing were greater than the numbers engaged in the coal mining industry in New Zealand. After recalling that the first contract for State housing was let on March 3, 1937, Mr. Xee said that toy March 17, 1938. contracts had been let for the erection of 2427 houses. By the end of this month tenders would have been called for 3000 houses. This meant that in the 12 months succeeding the letting of the first contract, the Department of Housing Construction had advanced to a point at which it was able to let contracts for about 50 per cent of the housing erected in New Zealand in the good years. "The capacity of the Department is still accelerating," said Mr. Lee. "This week about 4000 men are actually engaged in the work of house construction for the Department. No doubt another 4000 are engaged in preparing material. Schemes of housing have been be<nin or are about to begin in about 40 towns and the 4000 men now .employed will be added to considerably as the time goes on."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 67, 21 March 1938, Page 15
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