SHORTAGE OF HOUSE PROPERTY.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 128, 2 June 1920, Page 5

SHORTAGE OF HOUSE PROPERTY.

'",'■'•..■ '; , WpLUNGTON, M&y l.v ','. The Returned, Soldiers' Conference passed 'the following remits: ''That a JJillt be- inti-odueed" intci' Parliameut; next'..sessioil providing that Anzac. Dj&y' be a st'atlitory holiday,'' ''That in the' "ophiieoi of tho association the prescnf; shortage . >f-Koase 'property.,. the excessive, prices therdof, and' any scarcity of building operations were largely the direct . result of the \yholesale . tvxpen-tation fef building timber by most, of tho laa'ge timber co-operations throngliO'iit New Zea r laud and 4 that xhe Government be urged! to stop \such exportation and; cdnr.mandeor all available building material for tlie erection of homes."