WORKERS' DWELLING ACT.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13381, 2 April 1912, Page 3

WORKERS' DWELLING ACT.

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! Pa'morftors North, April 1. ! Applicants for Workers' dwellings in tho Loxighnav) settlement j».t Tei race End met Mr. lemplo, the Government architect, and Mr. W. J. Culver, of tho Labour Department, to-night to "consider specifications. Tender:- had been called on. specifications made on the conditions applying under the Wellington building by-laws, and resulted in the tender of c, Palmorston builder being in excess of the estimates. It was agreed that tho specifications should Oe modified to met P the local building customs which were less drastic than those of Wellington. The matter was. satisfactorily settled with, the first_ batch of eleven and. tlieril \vv\x> applications for a second batch. Thenis room in the-settlement for SO houses, on quarter aero sections.