Funds for flats
Parliamentary reporter Housing Corporation funds' amounting -td $330,000 . will; be made available to the: Riccarton Borough Council' for its latest pensioner hous- i ing scheme. Formal approval was an- < nounced by the member fori Riccarton (Mr Holland), who ! is Minister for Housing. The finance, comprising $220,000 in subsidies and a, $llO,OOO loan, is to build 221 rental flats in Nelson and I Walsall Streets. The council intends to J build 18 flats next to the; eight built on the Walsall! Street site ip 1969, and four! next to the existing 12 built ! in 1972 in Nelson Street.' When they are finished. Riccarton Borough will have added to its present pensioner stock of 41 flats by about a third, Mr Holland said. 1 The Minister said work on the two projects would ’ begin within three months y and the first tenants should |1 move in by March next I' year. . The Medical Officer of!i Health in Christchurch has I approved the site as suitable ‘ and confirmed the need forL the units in the borough. '(
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