BUILDING SUBSIDY PLAN

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1933, Page 6

BUILDING SUBSIDY PLAN

NEW PLYMOUTH APPLICATION

WORKS ESTIMATED AT £9480. K

FOURTEEN NEW HOUSES PROPOSED.

ERECTION OF THE FIRST STARTED.

Work was commenced yesterday on the first house to 'be erected at New Plymouth with the assistance of the new building subsidy plan sponsored by the Unemployment Board. Applications for subsidies are being received fairly steadily by the office of the Labour Department at New Plymouth and now number 26, an increase of 16 in a little less than a fortnight. In that period the" total estimated cost of proposed works has increased from £ ’9O6 to £9482, of which it is estimated £2390 will be spent on labour. Foui’teen of the applications are for subsidies on labour required for the erection of houses to cost a total of £8255, of which £2025 will be spent in wages. The most expensive house is to cost £l3OO, another is estimated at £9OO, two 'between £7OO and £BOO and three between £6OO and £650. The others range from £2OO upwards. There are five applications for subsidies on the painting, alteration or renovation of houses and six for similar work on business premises.