HOUSES IN SECTIONS
JUDGE FRASER SUGGESTS IMPORTATION Br Tblbgbafh —Pnsss AssociationAuckland, April 30. Mr Justice Frazer, in the Arbitration Court to-day, commenting on the cost of building four and five-roomed houses, said he did not know why Naw Zealand did not follow the practice of the United States, where syndicates manufactured houses in sections. and supplied a five-roomed house complete with glass, hardware, roof, iron, nails, and paint, for little over £100; the buyer getting a house complete in sections, ready to erect. Suppose freight an! duty amounted to 50 per cent, he said, the cost landed in New Zealand would be only a little over £l5O. Air. Wnght. representing the employers, said that four and five-roomed concrete houses had been built in New Zealand with water supply and drainage, and workers living there were comfortable. The cottages were let at 10 s. per week, and tho proprietors! made no loss.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 185, 1 May 1924, Page 6
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151HOUSES IN SECTIONS Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 185, 1 May 1924, Page 6
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