Progress of Slum Clearing
MORE TENDERS BEING RECEIVED (British Official Wireless.) Received Wednesday, 6.30 p.m. RUGBY, Feb. 15. Moving the second reading in the House of Commons of the new Housing Bill, Sir Kingsley Wood said it had been estimated that originally 600,000 new houses were required to fulfil the Government’s slum clearance and overcrowding programme. Of this total 290,000 had already been built and 70,000 were under construction. Building prices were steadying, and local authorities were again receiving more tenders.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 40, 17 February 1938, Page 2
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