STATE HOUSES
REPLY TO CRITICS
CHALLENGE STILL STANDS
Replying to criticism concerning cost and rents of houses being erected under the State scheme, the Undersecretary in Charge of Housing (Mr. J. A. Lee) said this morning that the Government had announced the moment the scheme was launched that if anybody could build better houses than, or houses as good as, the Government was putting up, and let then! at a cheaper rent, they were invited to send in their! plans, specifications, and prices and the Government would sign them up for a job.
. "It is one thing to write letters to the Press, but it is another thing to deliver' the goods at the cheaper prices," said Mr. Lee. "The challenge made at the outset of operations and repeated since still stands. Anybody who can build a durable house of good quality at a lower price than the Government is paying can have years of work. This is the only test.'1
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 63, 11 September 1937, Page 11
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