STATE HOUSES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23018, 21 April 1938, Page 10

STATE HOUSES

PROGRESS OF WORK HARP OF ERIN ESTATE START ON MONDAY PROPOSED The successful tenderer for the con« struction of the first batch of 92 State houses on the Harp of Erin estate afc the triangle made by the Great Soath]?oad and Campbell Road, the Fletcher Construction Company, Limited, proposes to start operations on Monday. It expects to complete the housei within five months and*for the first two months it will be able to employ on foundation work most of the 50 men recently dismissed from the housing scheme at Orakei. The company has practically finished the first batch of 209 houses at Orakei, many of which are still, however, in the hands of the painters. The painting should be completed by the middle of next month. By the end of this month 50 houses built on the Casey Estate will also pass from the company's hands into those of the painters. Under a second contract at Orakei, the Fletcher Construction Company will have completed some houses in abont two months. It has roofed about.2s houses so far under this contract. Other builders are in about the same position with their contracts. v' "s-f

Many houses now occupied lack dividing fences. The Government has started on the work of fencing, the materials employer! being posts arid Trire-netting. Presumably tenants who desire lire fences will have to plant these theni* selves.