Flooring Shortage Delays State Houses

Chronicle (Levin), 21 January 1949, Page 4

Flooring Shortage Delays State Houses

Shortage; - of, .flooring materials has hejd up the construetioh of part of the block of nearly 40 State housing units off Winchester Street. When the drying kilnjs 'in Wellington broke . dowh a- short while ago, the stock of flooring boards was exhausted and the firm which has the contract for the main part of the block could not fihish; ; the .hodses ' in 'the expected timet; ft ds. hoped, to have the flooiv ing .'in- hand v'ery. shortjy and, . in the ' meantime, work Will contihue oh other" portions of the block, • Within six weeks a start should be pia'de on a further and larger bloqk ' of" houses rin Queen Street. The. grourid is how being surveyed and'.it-' will not be . long before foundatlons are laid. ' ■' In Winchester Street- three of the houses will shortly be occupied. The interior decoration work is to be dane and some . minor fittings added. Following this it is anticipated that each week will see a new house' ready for occupation. ".In the meantime, power poles have been set along the loop road through the block and the lines put in to each of the houses, It will only remain for the roading to be completed, the sections smoOthed and fences, erected and horrfes will be provided in Levin for another 40 families.