BUILDING SPURT
ACTIVITY IK FIRTY-EIGHT TOWHS (Pea United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Mar. 29. “Building construction under the Government’s housing scheme is proceeding in 48 towns,” said the Under-secretary in charge of Housing (Mr J. A. Lee) in an interview. “ Contracts are now being let at the rate of 100 houses a week. If this is maintained the total for the year will be 5200 houses.” Mr Lee said that the only obstacle 1 1 that achievement would be a lack of skilled builders. Meanwhile the rate of building construction was well over 50 per cent, above peak level. The output, he added, was being rapidly accelerated.
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Evening Star, Issue 22920, 30 March 1938, Page 16
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106BUILDING SPURT Evening Star, Issue 22920, 30 March 1938, Page 16
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