PRIVATE BUILDING
INVESTIGATION DESIRED
The stricter control of building permits, to ensure that materials and labour would be used for essential work and housing, was urged yesterday by the conference of the New Zealand Labour Party, which also recommended the appointment of a Parliamentary Committee to investigate private building. In an address on State housing, the Minister of Works (Mr. Semple) said that more, than 4000 building trade workers were employed on the erection of State houses. He would employ 10,000 if the materials were available. The Department had bought 44,000 sections, a fact which indicated the Government's intention to push ahead with its housing construction More than 19,000 State rental houses had been completed and were occupied by more than 80,000 people. Taking into account the houses built by private individuals, more than 30,000 houses had been constructed during the Government's term of office.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 118, 15 November 1945, Page 6
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