NEW ZEALAND RENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 29, 4 February 1939, Page 18

NEW ZEALAND RENTS.

Your correspondent "Jay See" says the houses that can now be built for £500 or £000, if- it were not for obsolete by-laws and expensive- permit fees, which 'the Government overrides, are of such a type that the fewer we see of . them; the*, better. ' Let me tell "Jay See" that in appearance they compare i very favourably with the Stale houses, i\whicli' are nothing to crow about. I can rfiell a. State house from a private one a in ile away. There is a remarkable stfinilarity about them, and - what a tna gedy it: is' ; that a few - lio'sey-parkers wrAut to know the cost. *T have only befevr 'building/- for. 45 years, so .perhaps myV opinion is worth nothing, but the house's that can now be built for £000 — and 1 built a number of tliem some live years! ago for under £300—have a 9ft stud, /.front room 13ft by 12ft with firebedroom 12ft by 12ft, second bedrodiii 9ft by Bft, sun porch Bft by Bft, bathroom Oft by-oft, wash-house 7ft by Oft, .kitchen 13ft by Oft, connected with sewer j • "ji !•). am r ■ not building any more by con&ract • asv I havegiyen v up. contracting 'dlirouglT advancing years. - 1, am, however, •'» just starting • one . for _ jiiyself and it not have any 1 sap rimu or sap kauri-in it. . To put sap rimu into a good house is throwing money away. SMALL BUILDER.