Here and There.

Progress, Volume XV, Issue 7, 1 March 1920, Page 741

Here and There.

Contracts have been signed for the erection of more workers’ dwellings in Christchurch. A start will be made to erect the houses next month. They will be of the bungalow type, and made of cement manufactured at Paparua Prison. • • • • Another block of dwellings is to be erected, at - Rotomaro for the Taupiri coal miners. The houses already erected there are well-planned and up-to date. The miners have the option of purchasing their own freehold houses on very easy terms, a scheme having been devised by the secretary to the company under which, by a payment of a weekly sum— to be practically less than the rent value —the house in time , becomes the miner’s absolute property. If the miner desires to leave the district he can sell to another man or dispose of his holding to the company, which will purchase the house subject to valuation. Three or four acres of land have been marked out for a site for a new school . ■•« • • Regarding the proposed new building for Auckland University College, the Minister of Education. Sir Francis Bell, said that the College Council would have, to be provided with sufficient funds to erect a building fit in every respect to be the chief seat of learning in the North Island. The Government was prepared to deal with great liberality with the demands of Auckland when they were presented. Asked to indicate the amount the Cabinet was prepared to vote, the Minister said he thought it would not be less than £IOO,OOO. # * « * Provision was made in the Housing Act for financial assistance towards the provision of dwellinghouses for the employees in industries.' A “proclamation” published in the Gazette declares that this part of .the Act shall apply to the meat-freezing industry, applications having been received from vari- • ous employers in that industry for assistance under the Act. V V,. /