IMPORTATION OF PRECUT HOUSES
MR NASH’S CRITICISM (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. November 11.
The Government’s importation of 1000 pre-cut houses from Austria and Britain was “a most absurd action.” said the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Nash) at a political meeting in the Princess Theatre. Dominion road, this evening.
Mr Nash estimated that the houses would cost from £2700 to £3OOO each before they were put on the sites. He said they would contain £375.000 worth of overseas timber, when local timber workers were being put off because New Zealand was producing more timber than she could use. They would also have £700,000 worth of fittings and builders’ sundries which could be made in New Zealand.
“It is wrong to bring the houses in,” Mr Nash said. “We ought to build our own houses from the resources of this country.”
The Government was now building only two-thirds of the number of State houses erected in 1949 and. because of the cost of building and sections, private house building was declining. Mr Nash said. A person needed £1250 as a deposit for a new home at today’s prices, and that was beyond the average young couple.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26886, 12 November 1952, Page 10
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