NOTHING FOR SOMETHING

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3830, 6 November 1936, Page 9

NOTHING FOR SOMETHING

WASTE IN HOUSE-BUILDING. “The average contractor deliberately allows for a 10 per cent, waste in making his financial calculations. Stop and think what this means. It means that for evt;ry Id houses he completes and delivers to purchasers, he wastes enough to build one additional house. How is that for waste, extravagance and inefficiency net all confined to government by any means? But that is far from all the story. Each little subcontractor must figure a 10 per cent, waste info his calculations too. Add to these wastes of material the cost of transporting and handing them from source of production to the job, and you will

bfegin to get some slight idea of the excesses consumers pay as a toll, or a tax if you wish, upon an inefficient industry. People who are agitated over a few cents increase in the tax rate might better examine this sourfl’- of getting nothing for something, for government taxes do bring some value received.”—Mr T. S. Harding in the “Christian Century.”