BUILDINGS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1930, Page 11

BUILDINGS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.

'Nir,—A few days ago you published by some of the recent British farpips’ party of tourists. A feature reniaks was the general diseomfqji^ l i,nf |i farm dwellings and appurtenapceq,,. I venture the. opinion that a percentage of the fanners of, this country, would be pleased to we]-., come a scheme, whereby they could reconstruct, their dwellings, and, outbuildings, if they could do so without further, embarrassing, their finances* While being qjyte jnpparcfi. -to,.say “Hear, hear!” to yyhq state people should depend otydd l ,resolves .and leave the Government tg< 7 gpjyiern,. I believe .there is a possibility 0f... reducing unemployment by tl}p..;(?.oyernmenl devising a scheme .of encouragement in .the matter of improviug,.,i? i rm archilecture. The towns and ci|pj.s.,have been largely rebuilt and enthrough the use of State Advap^e.s/money, and now that a slackening,^^./lifts, Arrived in that direction it shp|ds ,lje, possible to remove the activities’builders to the farming areas. Of; sparse i.tfiere is a. completely different financial problem to be solved to enable any wholesale application of the proposition, as the buildings of a farm are so bound:up in the general financial fabric.'*' Nevertheless any proposal that would tend to re-equip a property with structures that would stand the test of time, ami such that would attract io farm work people who value efficient equipment, would undoubtedly obtain the support of established financial' interests. Therefore I suggest tli.yt,..a. speciai fund be established for the, ...purpose discussed, whereupon it wqukl .be possible, foi; any farmer to obtain. long-dated credit at very easy rates,, security for repayment to become r just charge on the property. Greater comfort should tend to increased all-: roii^dfyjfii'ciengy.—l 9in, etc.,, I ;moGrn.>ib e GO AHEAD, vf see ■- .m . <■