SHORTAGE OF CEMENT
WORK HELD UP IN MANAWATU “The Press” Special Service WELLINGTON, June 17. Widespread collapse of the building industry in the Manawatu is threatened unless there is immediate relief of the cement shortage, according to the secretary of the Manawatu Master Builders’ Association (Mr F. G. M. Parkinson). He said that 100 men were in danger df losing their jobs from the beginning of next week. An urgent plea for reasonable relief has been sent to the Building Controller in Wellington. Large-scale construction works are at a standstill, including Government contracts, and private and commercial building. Am rt ng the works held up are the Government contract at Massey College for the research and demonstration block, urgent premises for the Manawatu-Or oua Power Board, the Glaxo laboratories, four blocks of flats, and numerous private buildings. Mr Ormond Wilson, M.P. for Palmerston North, said recently that a group of houses was to be built immediately for old people. This project must also be affected, because there is no cement to lay the foundations. Another serious result of the shortage is a hold-up of plastering work at the Otaki Sanatorium.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25833, 18 June 1949, Page 8
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