Building Trainees And State Houses
Rehabilitation trade trainees were building houses in many centres where private building firms had, for the most part, not accepted State housing contracts said Mr S. W. Gaspar, chairman of the Rehabilitation Board’s trade training committee, at the quarterly meeting of the Rehabilitation Council. It appeared that in those centres had it not been for the trainees few State houses would have been built. v , Carpenters were still badly needed. In Wellington one firm was prepared to take 100 trainees whenever they were ready. Had it not been for the scheme, instead of there being over 10,000 carpenters in New Zealand there would be less than 7,000. It seemed that the demand for housing would continue for some time yet, and he felt that the training scheme should be continued. Until the end of August, trainees had handed over 1554 completed houses, of which 554 had been completed this year. Erection of houses was now being speeded up with the materials position much easier.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 4, 6 October 1948, Page 7
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169Building Trainees And State Houses Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 4, 6 October 1948, Page 7
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