ROOFING IRON

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLX, Issue 22028, 30 July 1941, Page 4

ROOFING IRON

Cost Hampering Building Industry

(P.A.) WELLINGTON. July 29. In a notice of question to the Minister of Industries and Commerce, id thfe Hotlse to-day, Mi- s. G. Holland asked if the Minister would inform the House whether representations had been made to Sir Ronald Charles, of the British Aluminium Company, br the United Kingdom Government regarding the potentialities of New Zealand for the production of aluminium and other light metals ta the Dominion.

Mr J. Hodgens (Labour, Palmerston North), also gave notice to ask the Minister bf Industries afid Commerce if his attention had been drawn to the disturbing effect on the building industry of the present prices of roofing materials. Mr Hodgens said that a roof that could te covered for £l5O in corrugated iron would cost in corrugated asbestos £193, While the cost in tiles would be £260. A resolution of protest by the New Zealand Law Society regarding the passing of the Small Farms Amendment Act was raised by Mr W. J. Polson (National, Stratford) in a notice of question to the Acting prime Minister. He asked Mr Nash if he had received a copy of the resolution and whether he would inform the House of its terms. He also asked if the Acting Prime Minister would state the principles on which the suppression of important criticism was based if he decided not to inform the House of the tenor of the resolution, and also whether it was intended to extend these principles to other than war subjects.