STATE HOUSING POLICY
CONTINUATION OF WORK STATEMENT BY MR. LEE [by telegraph—PßESS association] HASTINGS, Friday A statement that the Department of Housing Construction would continue to let contracts throughout the Dominion for the erection of State houses so long as the need for additional housing existed, and in quantities calculated to keep tlio building trade fully engaged, was made this morning by Mr. J. A. Lee, Parliamentary Under-Secretary in charge of Housing. Mr. Lee added that no advantage would be gained from letting contracts when building materials and labour were not available to have*them completed, and when this circumstance would only force up the price against the department.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23025, 30 April 1938, Page 14
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