BUILDING INDUSTRY
BEST SERVED BY FREE PRIVATE ENTERPRISE (P.A.') NELSON, Feb. 29. The opinion that the economic interests of the building industry in New Zealand could) best be served by the retention of free private enterprise, unhindered by Government bureaucratic control, was expressed by the conference of the New Zealand Master Builders' Federation to-day. The following Canterbury remit was approved:—"That owing to the falling off in the building requirements of the Defence Department, the time has arrived to revise the policy of control with a view to making available to the building industry those materials which were reserved for defence priorities now fulfilled." It was agreed that the conference request the Government to arrange for the distribution of materials for State and private houses at the same cost. It was also decided to draw the attention of the Government to the lack of provision in the present 'building programme for the adequate decentralisation of industry and housing construction.
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Evening Star, Issue 25113, 1 March 1944, Page 3
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