OPENING OF STATE HOUSES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22305, 20 January 1938, Page 9

OPENING OF STATE HOUSES

CEREMONY AT SPREYDON ON SATURDAY

The official ceremony of opening the State houses at Spreydon for tenancy will be held on Saturday afternoon. The member of Parliament for the district (Mr E. J. Howard) will declare the houses open. The first tenant, however, has already taken occupation, and those to whom the completed houses have been let are free to lake possession at arty time. There is still a good deal of work to be done before the whole settlement is completed, and, according to the Christchurch manager of the State Advances Corporation (Mr F. Shaw), the department is still able to receive applications for tenancy. The Spreydon scheme is intended to comnrise 58 houses. Contracts have been signed for the erection of 45 of these houses. The area available for building is 14 acres, the subdivision being between Stourbridge and Wychbury streets.

Because of the official engagements elsewhere, the Parliamentary Undersecretary in Charge of Housing (Mr J. A. Lee) will bo unable- to attend, and has sent his apologies with his best wishes to the tenants at Spreydon. Christchurch is the last of the four centres to hold such a ceremony. The first of the State homes to be occupied at Timaru will be opened on January 29, a week later, Mr Clyde Carr, M.P.. performing the installation ceremony.