BIG BUILDING BOOM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18192, 13 September 1933, Page 7

BIG BUILDING BOOM

GISBORNE SUBSIDY RUSH WORK WORTH £107,000 Applications have boon made to the Gisborne office of the Labor Department for building subsidies on work estimated to cost about £107,000. Yesterday saw the closing of applications. There "was a veritable deluge on the part of people making last-minute arrangements, and at one stage it w'as thought that the office would run out of official forms. In all, 50 applications were dealt with during the day, the value of the work they represented being about £27,700. When a final tally of the applications was made by the certifying officer, Mr. J. Hanlon, and his staff to-day, it was found that during the 10 weeks of the operation of the scheme, 217 applications had been received for work valued at £107,000. Approximately 100 of these applications had come in during the past few. days. Mast of the older applications, Mr. Hanlon said, had been authorised by the Unemployment Board, and IOR had been sanctioned to date. Some of these jobs had been commenced already, and several of the smaller ones had been completed. Many had yet to be commenced, and if the majority of the remainder are authorised this should be one of the busiest building years Gisborne has had for a long time

Nearly all the jobs applied for are in the Borough of Gisborne, or in the immediate district, but a few cottages in the country are on the list.