FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15746, 22 October 1914, Page 9

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSES. Question of MATERIAL USED. (Frr,:n the HETIALD of October 22, 1864.) Tr MTV fluently happens in this world that. t!:" very best course for us to pursue is to choose the least of two evils. A wise nun therefore bends himself to the ciriiini ■taiu-es which he, cannot alter to f.:t 1- - • -vn titular case. The pro-ri'-:ers • i the Building Act Amendment Ail. i;. 11 "ihired into the Provincial Connc.l by Mr Newman, are exactly m the Mir..- posit alluded to above. The prr.i.f'lc ol th.' measure, meets with unanimous approval, but the area sought 1 ' 1,0 ol:iljr:uvii by it is as unanimously consul'rod t->o larne Th« Government m- ine iMJVernmont b.'i betn'i . meet l!,p wishes of the Coun- ' ! u simply an ho of the feeling •'!" ' 1 diHtrs, and agreo to a much less 0,1 i' '<• ' 1 than they have proT" n hV r " V'Vl . i,| l" w » that 11 would • .'| M .Ntt „■ ,t tlung [H -r so . if a]) t!l0 r", " „ nty ilnd suburbs Were ■ • ' a Ir.ss .nflamnml.lH material than : nniiv „;r, u "i, ,T a very great «» rnn " V • - ,l l if we cannot, under "I' j Ul instances, obtain that »-". io„Miier best in this respect, !'■: ~v turn ' ' that whu h is the next host I" e-v-'-nd th,. operation of the Building A " '• '' ' M '' !t " hl prevent the erection I viry l. . 'iv houses. To prevent wooden ,r " m . " vln - ''uilt. in certain locali•es i^,unl : , to p,went any being built. . ll.t pine ' i biuk and stone, and the very " ' M; l'i Iv of either, natnrallv brink's •' } !u ' rosall - tlt would then ho a ,'u-a idal. all Inch would greatly limit mat WI,:. ■' wo 40 Urgently require— l.irce addition to ~ur house accumr.-ixla-tin.