FARM HANDS' COTTAGES
STATE SUI'IMiY STOPPED
(0.C.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Sunday. No further orders will now be accepted by the Government for farm workers' temporary accommodation, according to a letter from the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, read at a meeting of the North Taranaki provincial executive of the Farmers' Union in New Plymouth. Orders at present in hand will be completed. This information was given in reply to representations made by the executive for speedier output of temporary cottages on farms.
"It is felt," said Mr. Armstrong, "that the scheme has fulfilled its purpose by meeting temporarily the acute shortage of farm cottages brought about by the drive for increased production and that greater advantage should now be taken of the facilities available for financing the erection of a more permanent class of dwelling under the provisions of the Rural Housing Act.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 188, 11 August 1941, Page 2
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