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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17882, 1 October 1923, Page 13

While at Frankton last week the Minister of ltailwavs (the Hon. **• Coates) visited "the Railway meat's .house- construction factory. . *- ao factory and sawmill have been bout on a site of 30 acres on the north-western side of the Frankton station. The null, for breaking timber down from the log to rough lengths, has been in operation for about a fortnight, while the plant for. dressing timber, preparing joififejy,' and doing the plumbing work, requiredhas been working for nearly a J 6B The Department's aim is to construct 400 houses a year. At present the output is about a nouse. per day* Already 230 houses have been built. Of this number 38 have been erected at Frankton and 42 are in course of construction in this locality; 30 are at Marton, 25 at Taumarunui, 20 at Ohakune, and; others are at Tailiape and other stations in the North. The majority are of five rooms, and the average, cost ■ present time has been £7OO, or £2OO. less than the cost a year ago. Timber , supplies are secured from the Depart- ] ment's own bush at Mamaku, Erua-,anrj i elsewhere; At present the dressing # shaping mil] is dealing with 7*MW | lineal feet a day.