HILLSIDE WORKSHOPS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 8

HILLSIDE WORKSHOPS

REORGANISATION SCHEME - (By Teiegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post") . DUNEDIN, This Day. When the Hillside railway workshops are completed under the reorganised scheme, there will bo approximately 800 men employed there, and a "Star" reporter was informed to-day by a railway officer that the houses for Christchurch and Invercargill'inen on transfer to Dunedin aro now well under way. At tho moment thirteen houses are under construction. Ono has been completed and is 'already occupied, and during ±be next few months'the number of houses to be constructed iv Duaedin. and the suburbs will be brought to a total ■ of forty. ' The new buildings at the workshops are being constructed so that their advance synchronises with the erection of the houses. As soon, as these aro ready for occupation the men are transferred here. No hitch has occurred as regards'tlie reorganisation, •so far everything having: worked up to the schedule as planned by the departmental officers. "Other men, who have rented houses. . in ■'■Christchurch, are being transferred-here, as the need arises for them, arid'houses are beingfound- for them i)ere.. ■ ' ' »

The new ' moulding- shop running alongside -Cargi-11 road is: now under construction, and tho-roof and sides should be erected in the course' of a few days. All the houses for the transferred railwaymcn ■ are expected to be finished,by May, and yery'shortly after that the majority of the men from Christchureh and InvercargilJ will bo absorbed hero. : The new: dining-rooms are practically finished,' and' will be opened during the'next few weeks, while the new library under the supervision of Mr. D.yer, is; already being largely patronised. It is the Jargest private library of its kind in ' Nejis Jfealand. ' ■.■■.■.-/■■-. ■■.■■■ ■-;: ■ ~-~ ;,.'-'