BUILDING IN DUNEDIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25455, 9 February 1944, Page 2

BUILDING IN DUNEDIN

The position of State housing in the Dunedin metropolitan area is that about 130 houses are likely to be completed during the year ending June 30. At the end of last May the Minister of State Housing Construction (Mr R. Semple) announced that within the next 12 months 3000 new State houses would be built. Of that number 100 a month would be built in each of the cities of Wellington and Auckland and another 100 a month would be spread over the rest of New Zealand. It was later learned that Dunedin’s quota nf the vear’s construction had been fixed at 118. or about 3 per cent. Construction on a fairly large scale was not resumed in Dunedin until the end of last year. Contracts for five houses were let in July, and for another 11 in October. Since the beginning of November however, contracts have been let for 72 units and preparations are now being made for contracts for about 20 more at Mount Mera, Normanby, and an additional 13 various other parts of the city. It is expected that all these houses, numberin'' about 130 and including some already’ handed over, will. be completed before the middle of the year. irnrlv last year the Government’s purchase of the Corstorphine Estate for the erection of about 300 new houses was •mnounced. Plans for the subdivision and development of that area are* in hand, and although it will be a considerable time before the building of housrs there can be started, it is considered that the will be completely built on Ultimately and that the number of State houses there will be nearer 400 than 300.