STATE HOUSES
CONTRACTS ACCEPTED FOR 2200 | total of 3700 men employed i-ffct!** \SSOCIaTION rfeLfeGßAii.) WELLINGTON, March 4. To date the Department of Housing Construction has advertised 2772 houses, and the Cabinet has accepted contracts for 2200, stated the Parliamentary . Under-Secretary in charge of Housing (Mr J. A. Lee) in ah interview to-day. "The first tender was accepted by the Cabinet toward the end of March, 1937," he said. "By the end of March, 1938, tenders will have Been called for about 3000 hbuses. "The number of emplo3'ees engaged on the Government's housing scheriie continues to rise steeply. It is in the neighbourhood of 3700. Those directly and indirectly erhployed number close, on 3000."
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22343, 5 March 1938, Page 6
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