BUILDING SUBSIDY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 245, 13 September 1933, Page 6

BUILDING SUBSIDY

CONCLUDING FIGURES. TOTAL OUTLAY OF £139,000. With the suspension of the No. 10 building subsidy scheme yesterday, when the books were closed, a total ot 473 applications had been reached at Palmerston North, involving an estimated expenditure of no less than £139,850 Is 7d. The labour costs m connection with the various schemes will entail or have entailed an outlay of £51,424 Is Bd, while the subsidy amounts to £16,574 19s lidThe following detailed statistics hai e been supplied by the District Inspector of Labour (Mr W. H. Cadwallader) : Total applications • 473 Approvals granted to date ... The figures for approved applications are made up as follow: New dwellings, 137 (74 approved to date). Estimated cost of approvals £44,453 18s Id; labour, £11,782 12s’; subsidy. £5,256 12s Bd. Commercial buildings, 13 (of these seven have been already approved). Estimated cost of approvals £29,3UU; labour, £8,450; subsidy, £2,816 6s Bd. Alterations and renovations, -83 (or these 131 have been approved). Estimated cost of approvals, £6821 1/s 9d; labour, £2295 11s 8d; subsidy, £B2l Is Bd. _,. , , On all approved jobs: Estimated cost, £80,575 15s lOd; labour, £22,528 3s 8d; subsidy, £8,894 Is. The 58 applications received on the closing date were made up as follow: Cost, £20,789 Is 9d; labour, £7927 14s 6d; subsidy, £2917 19s lOd. DOMINION RETURNS.

MUCH WORK ENTAILED

BIG EXPENDITURE INDICATED

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 12. The rush in Wellington to take advantage of the building subsidy has been intense during the past few days. To-day the final rush brought 204 applications more in one day than in the month previous to the intimation that the scheme was to close down. The total estimated cost -of works covered by to-day’s applications was £50,265 3s lOd, with an estimated labour cost of £17,164 11s, and an estimated subsidy of £6255 19s 4d. The New Zealand totals are not yet available as applicants were allowed to exercise their rights in every city, town and village up till 5 p.m. today, so that there are bound to be a stream of applications received by the Unemployment Board for the next day or two. The work of going through these applications, classifying them and securing the board’s approval, or otherwise, may easily take over a week.

Up till Friday last the total number of applications received by the board from all parts of New Zealand was 5702, representing a total expenditure of £2,637,000. That means over £2,000,000 for labour, the subsidy on which will run into si,x figures. It is quite to be expected that the total estimated cost of buildings received up to, and including, to-day, will exceed the £3,000,000 mark for the whole country.

GISBORNE’S MILD BOOM,

Per Press Association.

GISBORNE, Sept. 12.

A mild boom set in in Gisborne today in the building subsidy scheme, 43 applications being received. The total value of work is estimated at £11,274. The aggregate total in Gisborne since the new scheme started is 216 applications, the value of the work being estimated at- £107,000.

CHRISTCHURCH FIGURES

A BIG TOTAL. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 12. To-day there was a last-minute rush of applications for the building subsidy. Included was an application for a job worth £25,000 for Winter Show purposes and another worth £50,000, the purpose of which was not disclosed to-day. Applications to-day numbered 272 and yesterdav 241. and the value represented was £169,880, with a, wages cost of The total in Christchurch to date is 1242 applications valued at £718,416, with a wages cost of £253,262'. Approvals number 460 and refusals 35.