HOUSING DEPARTMENT
INCREASED ACTIVITIES ABSORBING MUCH LABOUR [BY TELEGRAPH —PIIESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON. Saturday Surveying tho progress of the Housing Department, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Mr. J. A. Lee, commented on the rapidity with which the department's activities, were extending. Up to date land had been acquired in 43 places, and inquiries were afoot in numerous other centres. Tenders had been called in 33 towns, and in 20 schemes were under way or about to begin. In many towns evidence showed that the department was absorbing all available labour. In addition to contracts already lot, a further contract was now to be advertised for 19 single house units and three two-house units in the Hutt Valley. In all probabilitj*, lie said, 2600 peoplo were gainfully employed in building, and each week would show a progressive increase. An additional 400 men had been absorbed directly, and probably another 400 indirectly, during the past two months, and that rate of progress would bo maintained as long as ' men wero available.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22820, 30 August 1937, Page 10
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