A statement that the Greymouth Building Committee is “very concerned” over the present state of so-called non-essential building in the town was made to the Armed Forces Appeal Board, yesterday, by Mr. E. F. Evans, chairman of the committee. He stated that it felt that certain jobs, such as the Women’s Rest Centre, were so near completion that it was a great pity not to finish them, and it
was hoped to expedite this and similar undertakings on which a certain amount of progress had been. made. Another witness, referring to the position of the plumbing trade m Greymouth, said there were definitely insufficient skilled tradesmen to handle the work offering. The position was most difficult, and only absolutely essential work could be performed,
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19421022.2.38
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 22 October 1942, Page 6
Word Count
124Untitled Greymouth Evening Star, 22 October 1942, Page 6
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.