IRELAND

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 1 September 1919, Page 5

IRELAND

SYNDICATES' BIG HOUSING SCHEME. ;■■ -

TROUBLE EXPECTED AT BELFAST.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT :-V. . ....; LONDON, Aug. 30. Im National- Development Company has circularised the councils announcin'' that a powerful Irish-American and fctfottish t-oncern has arranged for an advance of £150,000.000 for an Irish, housing scheme. The money will be advanced, to the- councils and is repayable I at 5 per cent, in fifty years, when the debt will b e automatic-ally . extinguished, i I v The Westminster■ Gazette states that the Nationalist .leaders at Belfast leai-n that the Orange shipyard workers are i prepanng a fresh attack on their Horne1 Knle v fellow-workers similar to that in i • A I nmnbGr °^ th c Nationalists employed .have received a hint that it won !d be safer to absent themselves n-om woi-k for some time to come. I