ERECTION OF STEEL HOUSES
COMPETITION WITH BUILDING TRADE. FEARS HELD TO BE GROUNDLESS. Pmu Association —By Telegraph—CopyrightLONDON, April 26. (Received April 27, at 5.5 p.m.) The Court of Inquiry into steel, houses reported that the fear that the adoption of such a scheme would unduly compete with the recognised building industry was groundless since the enormous need for houses cannot be made up in many years whatever scheme is adopted. The report generally concludes that the scheme for tile erection of steel houses marks a serious attempt conceived along scientific lines to organise productive power to meet an urgent need. —Rente*.
As a sequel to the building trade unions’ opposition to a proposal that the Government should erect steel houses with a view to helping to overcome the housing shortage, the Ministry of Labour in March last announced the appointment of a court to inquire into the causes of the threatened disputes in connection with the construction of steel houses in view of the extent to which the disputes affecting house-building might prejudice the national interests by delaying the provision of urgently-neded houses and restricting the opportunities of employment.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19465, 28 April 1925, Page 7
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