HOUSE DESIGNS FOR SOLDIERFARMERS

Chronicle (Levin), 14 September 1946, Page 7

HOUSE DESIGNS FOR SOLDIERFARMERS

Considerable dissalisfaction was e\ prcssed at u nioeting of the Xorth Tara Jiaki exeoutive of Federated Faruicr with the lack of faeilities in homes niu at the evidenee of poor planning in thi ilesign of l'arm buildings prov-ided ot. land purchasod by the (Jrown and sub divided for allotment to ex-servicenu i by ballot. Even the cupboards ari wilhout doors," said Mr. X. P. tlibson "When 1 inquifedj 1 learued' that tlu houses were ero-ted uuder the supor vision of ihe Lands und Burvey Deparl ment's oilice und an olfcc'er of tliis dc partment expJainfid that, because thi plans did not specify cupboard doois none could be provided. .Mr. K. C. Sampson said that in somi cases the dairy sheds and farm buill ings had been placed in entirely wronp positions. JBathrooms and seulleries measurei only about six l'eet by four l'eet, sa'-c Mr. J. I). Pearce, and when the bait was in place there was scarcely spuei to stand beside it. Similarly, when tub. vvere in'stalled in tlie washhouse, pra - tically no room was left. Boldier occ.i piors had absoJutely no say in the de sign of their home3. The chairman, Mr. H. E. 151 vde, saii the plans stipulated that dairy sh,;(!. had to be oi' a -certain tvpe, faee in ! certain direction and be placed in a certain spot irrcspeetive of the shap or couliguration oi' the farm. The six oi the dairy slied was niost importan on a dairy l'arm. It could not in planned at Wellington, he said. The executive decided to set up i> coinmittee to \~isit certain i>ropertitand report on the conditions it linds.