HOUSES FOR RAILWAYMEN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16492, 9 November 1927, Page 4

HOUSES FOR RAILWAYMEN

1107 ERECTED. < The Railway Department’s factory at Frank ton Junction has been in operation for about three years, and its output has averaged more than one house a day. Of 1155 houses which have been cut, 1107 have been or are being erected at various railway centres in the North Island. Details as to the number erected and their sites are as follows:

Auckland, 52 (city 4, Avondale 2, Green Lane 22, Mount Albert 1, Newmarket 23); Otnhuhu, 54; Whangarei, 15; Frankton Junction, 110; Rotorua, 11; Te Kuiti, 34; Taumarumu, 32; Oliakuno Junction, 40; Taihape, 38; Marion, 34; New Plymouth, 36; Stratford, 9; Hawera, 15; Wanganui, 30; Foilding, 4; Palmerston North 66; Wellington 48 (Kaiwarra 44, Wadestown 4); Lower Hutt, 10; Masterton, 19; Woodville, 14; Dannevirke, 8; Hastings, 15: Napier, 17; Other stations, 396; a total of 1107. The department has also built 186 houses independent of the house factory at Frankton Junction. A. year ago the Government found that the basis of rental, that is, a day's pay for a week’s rent, was inadequate to meet the heavy cost of milling, and a small increase in the rent was authorised.

The Railway Department has erected 136 houses in the city suburban area between Papakura and Henderson. It is understood it is intended to erect a further 150 houses at Otahuhu, hut the work has not yet been authorised 1 .