JOINERY FACTORY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 15

JOINERY FACTORY

ERECTION JUSTIFIED

Mr. J. A. Lee (Government, Grey Lynn), replying to statements that the Government had done nothing for the small builder, recalled that in one year the past Government had made eleven advances for house-building. The previous day Cabinet had approved of building contracts that would give work to about thirty small builders. That-was one day's work for Cabinet. He had been waiting for an attack to be made on the joinery factory, because if there were one thing that could be defended, it was the purchase of this factory. It was one item with which the Government was not faced with substantial increases in prices, because it had a longterm contract. The rent being paid for the factory yielded the Government good interest, and the plant and machinery had to be maintained so that it might be handed over to the State at the end of the period of the contract in good order and condition. Mr, S. G. Holland (National, Christchurch North): For how-long-is the tease? Mr. Lee: Three years. He said that in a very few years the State would have the joinery factory at no expense whatever. "It is one of the best buys tbe State has ever made," lie claimed. He explained that the land for the factory cost. £11,000 and the machinery £3000. and the Government was.getting £3000 a year from the lessee, and a definite contract to supply joinery at a lower rate than anyone else was proj pared to supply it for. Every small, 'builder could receive joinery from lhe factory. J