STATE HOUSING AT AUCKLAND
“PRECUT UNITS NOT AN ADDITION” SECTIONS SAID TO BE SCARCE (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKIaAND, March 10. The 500 British precut houses to be erected at Auckland soon are not an addition to the scheduled State house building programme. This has had to be cut by 500 houses so that the precut units can be sited on serviced sections. This was said in a supplied statement today by the president of the Auckland Master Builders’ Association (Mr F. G. Rabone).
The precut houses were more costly, and their specified standard was lower than for State houses, he added. “If housing is Auckland’s No. 1 priority (as the Prime Minister (Mr Holland) said in Auckland last month) the public can expect little,” he said. The present shortage of land on which to site State houses was a direct result of the Government’s curtailment of State housing and its decision to sell sections and buy no more, Mr Rabone said.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26986, 11 March 1953, Page 3
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