HOUSES BUILT BY STATE
WORK FOR PRIVATE FIRMS (P.A.) AUCKLAND, December 18. “Instead of strangling enterprise, as some would have the people believe, the Government’s building programme has created a boom for private enterprise,” declared the Minister of Works; Mr Semple, this morning, in discussing the Dominion housing position.
“The building industry has never been so busy before as far ais the construction of houses by the State is concerned,” said the Minister. “It has to be borne in mind that timber and all other materials are purchased through private enterprise and contracts are let to private enterprise for the construction of the houses.”
Mr Semple said that when the State set out to solve the housing problem in 1935 it had no intention of creating for itself a monopoly of housing construction. All that it attempted was to devise a scheme to fill the gap between the number of houses needed and the number built by private enterprise. That objective would have been accomplished but for the war, which caused the' Government to switch over to defence construction. Today, with the Pacific operations getting further away, the Government was speeding up the construction of homes once more.
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Southland Times, Issue 25550, 19 December 1944, Page 4
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