STATE DWELLINGS
URGENT NEED IN CHRISTCHURCH MINISTER INTERVIEWED (PA) WELLINGTON, Feb. 9. The need for houses in Christchurch and the high proportion of urgent cases among that city’s applicants for State dwellings were emphasised by a deputation of Canterbury legislators which waited on the Minister of Works, Mr R Semple, to-day to discuss with him the proposal that building labour should be transferred to Wellington. The deputation comprised Miss Mabel Howard (Christchurch East), Mr T. H. McCombs (Lyttelton), and Messrs R. M. Macfarlane (Christchurch South), C. Morgan Williams (Kaiapoi), Clyde Carr (Timaru), J. L. McCullough, M.L.C., and G R. Hunter, M.L.C., who represented the Christchurch Rehabilitation Committee. The members of the deputation considered that there was no labour to spare from their districts.
The Minister said it was not intended to Withdraw the labour required from Christchurch only, but from other districts as well. It was his intention to see that all towns got their fair share of houses built.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25456, 10 February 1944, Page 6
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