MUSHROOM TOWNS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 17, 16 February 1942, Page 2

MUSHROOM TOWNS

SPRING UP IN BRITAIN

DISMANTLED AFTER THE WAR

Hostel towns are springing up all over Britain around the new factories, seme of them covering a square mile of land, for making munitions and other war material.

The factories have to be built well away from congested areas and workers, instead of travelling long distances backwards and forwards, can now live on the spot in huts built in parti elsewhere and assembled where required along with canteens, refrigerated stores, emergency hospitals and shops.

After the war, all these buildings can easily be taken doAvn and put up again where wanted. They are a considerable item in Britain's building bill of £1,000,000 a day. Army camps and aerodromes are also going up all over the countrj', and for the "Home Front" there are air-raid shelters, first-aid posts, rest centres, emergency housing and feeding centres. Even temporary shops are put up in blitzed towns to carry on without interruption the distribution of food and other essentials. In Coventry, whole 1 rows of these shops were run up for the bombedout traders. all this war-time building is under direction cf Government departments, working through the Ministry of Works and Public Buildings set up fibout a year ago under Lord Reith (Major-General Sir lan Hay) .