STATE HOUSING

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 135, 4 December 1937, Page 10

STATE HOUSING

THE HUTT VALLEY

FIRST HOUSES OCCUPIED

On Wednesday the State Housing Department handed over the first six houses rented under the Government scheme in the Hutt Valley to the State Advances Corporation, and the first tenants have already entered into occupation.

The Director of Housing (Mr. A. Tyndall) stated today that contracts had been met for 384 houses in the Hutt Valley and a start had been made on 222 houses. This was apart from the Miramar houses. From now on small groups of houses would be handed over practically every week in the Hutt Valley.

Mr. Tyndall said that the effect of the Government policy on the housing shortage would be apparent from now on, as houses in various parts were being completed and ready for occupation. It was inevitable that there should be a lag from the time that the scheme was started until the first houses were available, but as more and more houses were finished the shortage would be decreasingly less serious. For instance, the first group at Auckland would be finished next week. At Miramar fifty-five houses out of the total of 90 had been handed over.

Contracts for the erection of about 1700 houses had been let throughout New Zealand, and well over 1000 houses were in the course of struction or had actually been handed over, this figure including 370 in the final finishing process. Houses were under way in 27 towns,' and contracts had been, accepted for groups of houses in 40 different towns.