STATE HOUSING
EFFORTS NOT SLACKENED LAND AHEAD OF REQUIREMENT (By Telegrapn.—special to Times) WELLINGTON, Tuesday “The lower amount of £4,000,000 in the Estimates for housing for this year does not mean that we are going to build fewer houses,” said the Minister of Housing, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, in an interview today. Mr Armstrong explained that the Housing Department had bought land well ahead of its requirements and purchases of land would not make the same calls this year on the money available. “As far as the building of houses is concerned, there will be no slackening,” said the Minister. “Because of the reduction on the Estimates some persons have interpreted the Government’s intentions to be a reduction of building. The financial provision means that more will be spent on houses because it will not be necessary to spend so much on land.” All the houses for which labour and material could be obtained would be built, the Minister added. He said that if critics considered dwelling houses were a luxury in wartime, the shortage of houses after the last war was a tragedy.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21155, 3 July 1940, Page 9
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