BUILDING SUBSIDY SCHEME

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22057, 13 September 1933, Page 8

BUILDING SUBSIDY SCHEME

OVER TWO MILLIONS IN WAGES rush of late APPLICATIONS. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 12. Tlt) to Friday last the appl Nations for the bmiding sutod? totaUed t D J i. “rSly atetg. 87 ner cent of the value of any bmldfL P f n New Zealand goes indirectly or directly in and » flen{ « $ rpS’iu waßeflfe’wages tas on which W The' Wellington railway station and the Dunedin Post Office did not participate in the subsidy. They are not being built under the No. 10 scheme, but some other assistance will probably be given. Un to Saturday the record number of applications received at the board’s head {ft' tQo but the Saturday and Mon™Ve M and 600 r f pec«.dy. To-day they are pouring in still faster. MILD BOOM AT GISBORNE (Per United Press Association.) GISBORNE, September 12. \ mild boom set in at Gisborne to : day, 43 subsidy applications being received, representing work the value of which estimated at £11,274. The aggregate total in Gisborne since the new scheme . rtaited is 216 applications estimated at £IUi,UUU.

CLOSING RUSH IN CHRISTCHURCH (Peb United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, September 12. There was a last-minute rush of applicants to-day for the building subsidy. Included was an application for a job worth £25,000 for Winter Show purposes, and another worth £50,000, the purpose of which has not been disclosed. To-day the applications numbered 272 and yesterday 241. The value represented was £160,880, with a wages cost of £63,335. The total in'Christchurch to date is 1242 applications, valued at £718,416, with a wages cost of £252,262. The approvals numbered 460 and the refusals 35.