WORKERS' HOMES.

Waikato Independent, Volume XII, Issue 1019, 1 June 1911, Page 5

WORKERS' HOMES.

Although the free plans and specifications of houses for borrowers under the Advances to Workers sections of the New Zealand State Guaranteed Advances Act have only been available for about three we°ks, it is stated that inquiries have been received in such numbers as to indicate that this will be a popular feature of the work of the Advances Department. The plans are on view at forty of the principal post offices in all parts of the Dominion, and any worker who has been granted an advance may choose one. He is then supplied gratis with working drawings and printed specification?, and-in the course of erection for which he makes ..is own arrangements) the house is inspected periodically by a Departmental valuer. There are eighteen designs, by Mr Temple, architect to' the Labor Department, and they range from a two-roomed dwelling, estimated to cost fall' mu? n ei ,2 ht - roo med house at ±620. This scheme is, of course, quite unconnected with the Workers' Dwel'ings Act, under which the Labor Department buys land, erects houses, and lets or sells them. Advances to workers by the State Guaranteed Advances Department are limited to a maximum of £450, and must neither exceed the value of the building, nor three-quarters of the value of the oroperty.