REBUILDING IN LONDON
BIG GOVERNMENT SCHEME
Rec. 12.50 p.m, LONDON, October 3. The Government is taking drastic measures to provide adequate housing for hundreds-of thousands of people m London before the winter sets in. The chairman of the War Damage Commission Sir Trustram Eve, has announced the conscription of all London builders for the repair of houses damaged by flying bombs and the re--cruiting of 30,000 men from the provinces. He declared that large London buildings, possibly including hotels, would be requisitioned to housl the workers. No building work would he allowed in London except bomb damage repair. y "There will have to be temporary nuts for many Londoners," he said + but I do not want the public to get the impression that I am going to have hutment camps all over London." A million houses have already received "fielddressings/"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 5
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