EXHIBITION—OR HOUSES?
Sir, —The leader page of “The Press”* to-day should cause the promoters of the Canterbury Exhibition to reconsider their proppsals. As you point out in your leading .article, “Housing and Health,” “To-day there is not only a .grave lack of houses, but many houses still occupied should have been demolished long ago.” The Minister of Works is reported to have said that 70,000,000 board feet of timber more is wanted annually; and that “the country was 100,000 tpns of cement short each year and could not get any now from overseas.” From this already insufficient supply must come the cement for the largest dam to be built in New Zealand, for the Coal Creek power. station. Finally, the Postmaster-General is reported as saying that “the building of houses in the Dominion was proceedihg as fast as materials became available.” Materials used in the exhibition must be diverted from house-building.—Yours, etc., H. S. HAMILTON. March 20. 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25139, 21 March 1947, Page 2
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