THE BUILDING SUBSIDY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18465, 2 August 1934, Page 9

THE BUILDING SUBSIDY

BOARD'S RESTRICTIONS ! USE OF N-Z. MATERIALS (Per Press Association.) . WELLINGTON, last night. The penalties which the Unemployment Board proposes to inflict on applicants for a subsidy under Scheme 12 (house building), whose application has been approved, and who then use imporMl materials when materials of New Zeamnd manufacture could have been used were indicated in a statement issued today by the deputy-Chairman of the board, Mr Walter Bromley, in connection with the use. of imported weather-boards or construction timbers apart from those items enumerated on the back of the application form. No subsidy will, he said, be granted in .respect of a house where imported timbers are to' be used. The uso of items in the nature of accessories and fittings in common use, and where the New Zealand manufacturer is in competition with imported manufacturers will incur a reduction of’the subsidy when the New Zealand product is not used. '

i'he following reductions, the figures in‘parentheses being the penalty, will be made from the subsidy when New Zealand manufactures are not used—porcelain enamel bath (penalty £2), electric stove (£4), gas stove (£3), electric hot waiter cistern (£1), .gas geyser (£2), wifcer taps, set of eight (10s), lavatory pedestal (10s), earthenware wash basin (10s), flushing cistern - (10s), roofing tiles, fof fireplaces (£2), wall boards (Id per sq. ft.), paint ready mixed (£2).