STATE HOUSING

Evening Star, Issue 22720, 6 August 1937, Page 12

STATE HOUSING

SCHEME GAINING MOMENTUM 1,200 HEN DIRECTLY EMPLOYED [Special to the ‘ Star.’] WELLINGTON, August G. The State housing scheme is starting to gain momentum, remarked the Hon. J. A. Leo, Under-Secretary iu_ Charge, in announcing that 1,200 work" ers were now directly employed on schemes in six centres. This does not include associated workers, .making tiles and stoves, milling timber, or the clerical staffs of building linns, and it is estimated that for every man actually on building, another is employed elsewhere in connection with the same job. We are about to start building, said Mr Luo, “at Invercargill, Oamaru, Timaru, and Thames, and will shortly bo building at New Plymouth, Masterton, Hastings, and Westport, while the commencement is not far away in Greymouth, Nelson, Blenheim, Rangiora, Levin, Napier, Hamilton, Whaugarei, Gisborne, Hawora, and a number of other places. “In most cases tenders have been called and a large amount of money made available to local authorities, so that in all probability there will be some hundreds of other houses planned of which wo have no direct record.”