Last Year’s New Homes: Mr Fraser’s Figures Questioned
Referring to a reported remark to a meeting of the Brooklyn Labour Party that a record total of 17,522 new homes had been built in New Zealand during the year ended March 31, 1949, Mr Bowden (Karori) asked the Prime Minister in the House of Representatives the other day whether the figure 17,522 mentioned by him as the number of new houses constructed last year did in fact refer to dwellings, or did it include Army huts, transit housing, flats, and units in Ministry of Works or other camps? and, if it did include these, would he give the correct figure for houses? Mr Fraser replied, “The figure of 17,522 mentioned by me as the number of new homes constructed last year was derived from returns from Electrical Supply Authorities in response to a questionnaire as to the number of new dwellings connected to supply mains during the year. The further verification of these returns is at present being made, and details of the content of the figures will be made available as soon as possible.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 14, 20 July 1949, Page 5
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184Last Year’s New Homes: Mr Fraser’s Figures Questioned Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 14, 20 July 1949, Page 5
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