A WIDER SCOPE

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 132, 1 December 1936, Page 5

A WIDER SCOPE

STATE HOUSING SCHEME

DAIRY FACTOjRY EMPLOYEES

The extension of the benefits of the Government'ls housing scheme to cooperative <lsfiry factories was announced by' the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. TSPA, J. Savage) last evening. Such dahv factories are offered loan money at '3 per cent, for the construction of .houses for their workers. "Morrey will be available at 3 per cent. ftiL* the housing of workers associated" Xvith such factories," said me Prime TMinister. "Housing will have to coniform to the standards adopted by tli^e Ministry of Housing for work-ing-c/'/ass housing, and will have to be, as itir as possible, houses erected with Ne\<* jEealand materials. The dairy factories will'be expected to borrow ths money and to erect the houses, and if they 'dispose of the same to an employefl; or employees, to insert some provision preventing trafficking at a profit. "Atrteady communications have been received from dairy factories anxious to awriil themselves of money under a schqrae such as this, and the Governmeri ti is pleased to assist the farmers to iio anything that will enable them to '/retain labour necessary to their indug tries in their own localities under deq ent conditions. "The Government is also considering to -what extent moneys can be ad-Va-TCed to firms prepared to subscribe Reasonable deposits for the purpose of -housing their employees. An application or two have been received already :from firms willing to find small de--1 posits, and this question is now being 1 considered."