WORKERS' DWELLINGS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 293, 6 September 1919, Page 8

WORKERS' DWELLINGS

BUILDING SITES PURCHASED IN WELLINGTON TENDERS CALLED Mr. F. W. Rowley (Secretary for Labour and Superintendent of Workers' Dwellings) stated yesterday afternoon that Cabinet, had authorised his Depart- | inont to purchase, as sites for building, • 54 sections at Sliramar and Vogeltown, ! Upon these sections, together with a fow , others already purchased, will bo erected I the sixty dwellings that form Wellington's quota of the 200 which are now to be built in various parts of the Domint ion. Tho sections are not entirely in ■ two blocks, but are scattered a little in i both of the localities named above. , In this issue of The Dominion-, the t Department calls tenders for the build- . ing of about 195 worker.-' dwellings. Each j builder who tenders may offer to ereel I all tho houses, or any smaller number lie , chooscS. The Department is calling foi the tenders in only two designs, which have been specially prepared for building in concrete, but builders may submit their own systems of building and their own plans and specifications for consideration. Tenders will be received up to September 30, and if thev prove satisfactory the Department will ask Cabinet to authorise the immediate commencement of the work of building. "It is quite well understood by tlio Deparfment," said Sir. Rowley yesterday. "that a much larger number of dwellings than 200 is required to meet the housing throughout New Zealand; but it remains to be seen whether tenders with the requisite labour and material caii bo obtained at onct' even for 200 houses. K they are obtained, it is understood that arrangements can readily be made for tho erection (>t more bouses."