"EMERGENCY" PLAN TO BUILD HOMES

Chronicle (Levin), 23 November 1949, Page 6

"EMERGENCY" PLAN TO BUILD HOMES

WELLINGTON ,Nov. 22. Housing would be treated as a national emergencv if the National Party were returued, and all builders and related trades asked to work long er hours with overtime rates subsidised, said Mr W. Suilivan (National, Bay oi Plenty) at Taita. A Hocialistic Government had hin dered inillers untiJ sonie of them had been forced to close down, said Mr Sui livan. There were 5-1 mills in his eJectorate, and some of them had gone oul of business because the Government denied them logs from uiany thousands of aeres of idigenous and exotic timbers which were ready to cut. TluNational Government would carry oi: subsidies to encourage the millers and their men to bring out the logs. ' ' They will do it, ' ' he said. " N o oue works harder than a timber worker ft's outside the mills where the supph slows up . . . We are no better off re garding housing than we were 10 yeurt ago, and if we continue on the saine lines we will never get over it. Our policy is to clean up the position in two years, so that we can get on with commercial building. " Mr Sullivan said the prefabricated buildings would be erected for transit housing in town areas. These would when indispensible by pressure of ahvavs be usefui for hostels and hoines for old folk.