BUILDINGS FOR FACTORIES

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26512, 29 August 1951, Page 6

BUILDINGS FOR FACTORIES

154 FIRMS SEEKING PERMITS

“I believe the time is arriving when we shall have to give attention to industrial building. We cannot allow jut men and women to work much longer in some of the present factories,” said the Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr J. T. Watts) in an election address in St. Albans last evening. Earlier in his address Mr Watts said that since he had assumed office 154 industrial concerns throughout New Zealand had applied for permits to build new factories or extend existing factories at a cost of £3OOO or more. The total value of this projected work was more than £3,000,000, he said. After dealing with housing under the National Government the Minister said the present order of priority was housing, schools, hydro-electric projects, and hospitals. Many firms wanted to modernise their factories, but because of the stringent conditions governing the issue of permits had been unable to do so since the war. The Industrial Health Division of the Department of Health had reported to him on many buildings which were not up to standard and it appeared that their claims for building peimits would have to be considered soon.

RETURNS MAY BE

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FINAL RESULT LIKELY BY 10.30 P.M. From Our Own Reporter WELLINGTON, August 28. Officers of the Electoral Department expect that the final result in the General Election on Saturday will be available by 10.30 p.m. The first progress return should come through a few minutes after the polling booths close at 7 p.m. About 13.000 deputyreturning officers and poll clerks will be engaged at 6000 polling booths throughout New Zealand. Two factors will assist in making returns available more speedily than in the past—there is no liquor poll, and there are fewer candidates standing. and in most electorates the contest is between National and Labour. Returns from the three widespread S < £ tor ?? s l n the North Island could delay the final result. The Maori po 1 ! has previously been held th i? . day preceding the European poll, but on this occasion both poUs will be held on Saturday. Most delays are likely to occur in the EastEJL®?? 011 e,ec t°rate which extends from Tauranga inland to Rotorua and down the whole of the east coast ’o J” walrarapa. Southern Maori, which in area is the largest electorate in New Zealand, compnsr£X hole th ? South Island and the Chatham Islands, may also delay r etu J ns ’ but a « the result here appears to be a foregone conclusion suit 2 ” Bcarcely affect the over-all re-

in the 1949 election the fir t remit came from Fendalton, but the Wellington residential electorate of KarA°” as iL h % fl fl rs l with the flna > «suit. Among the 76 Euronean seats Waimanno and Westland, both of which cover wide territories, are usually" the rble t 0 malce their final figures avail-