SHARES OF PROFIT
Sir—lt is almost unanimously agreed that the cost of a home today appears excessive. Someone recently suggested as reported in your paper that of the cost of the average house £500 represents profits. Surely this js not suggesting that all this goes to the builder. We all know that the subcontractors and the supply merchants receive their profits and this would probably absorb a considerable sum. People are to be commended on investigating the price of homes, but 1 would also suggest that they take stock of the prices of smaller articles and services, with a view to eliminating the wasteful expenditure which is continually undermining the economics of our society. I would also suggest that people ask
to be published the costs of erecting houses under the Government's extended rehabilitation scheme, organisation and supervision costs to be included, as the average builder has to train one or more apprentices v and often also one or more trainees.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 61, 10 September 1945, Page 7
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161SHARES OF PROFIT Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 61, 10 September 1945, Page 7
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