Swedish Prefabricated House
One of the Swedish prefabricated wooden houses now being manufactured for export to Britain has been ordered by the New Zealand Government. Building experts hope to learn from it advances in construction methods. Several thousand of these houses have been erected in Britain, 6000 have been ordered by Argentina, and 1000 by South Africa. The houses are made in five designs, and range in size from 728 square feet to 1480 square feet. The house on order is 826 square feet in area and contains two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, wash-house, storage room, pantry and bathroom. The equivalent type of State house is about 1000 square feet in area. It is unlikely that New Zealand will order more than one house because of the high cost, the buildings costing 10/- a foot more than the New Zealand-made house.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 92, 24 October 1947, Page 2
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142Swedish Prefabricated House Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 92, 24 October 1947, Page 2
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