HOUSING SCHEME

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1937, Page 1

HOUSING SCHEME

QUESTIONS IN HOUSE

(Per Press Association —Copyright)

WEuA'GTON, September 23

Two questions about tile Government's Housing Scheme, one of them dealing with tlie use of plaster board in the new houses at Christchurch, were among interesting inquiries put to the Government at question time to-day in tile House of Representatives. The desire for the continued use of customary ■ plastering method s in the new State houses was expressed in notice of a question given hv Mr S. G. Holland (National, Christchurch North), lie asked the Minister in Charge of Housing (the Hon. W. Nash) to provide for the inclosi-un of the usu.-R plastering method of lath and three coats of plaster in the specifications for all houses being erected under tin; housing scheme. Mr Holland said in his question that such a method had been employed in an overwhelming majority of houses constructed in Christchurch, and that the provisions he asked would provide increased employment, a s well as giving the people the class of plastering that had proved so extremely satisfactory for the last 50 years or more. In a note to the question ho mentioned that opposition to the solo use of plaster board was unanimously voiced by plaster workers and employers at a meeting in Christchurch. An extension of the existing income limit for State advances loans for houses was suggested in a notice of a question given by Mr H. S. S. Kyle (National, Ricearton). He asked the Minister for Finance (the Hon. W. Nash) whether he would bring down legislation to extend that limit for a 95 per cent loan. In a note to his question, Mr Kyle said that a single man with £5 a week salary could qualify for a 95 per cent, loan, but a married man with eight children below the age of 14 years, earning a bigger income was disqualified.