BUILDING SUBSIDY SCHEME

Evening Star, Issue 21751, 20 June 1934, Page 1

BUILDING SUBSIDY SCHEME

REINSTATEMENT FOB DWELLINGS URGED 0 ' ~~ [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, June 19, The Wellington Chamber of Com* merce to-night supported a resolution passed by a meeting of architects and members of allied industries urging the reinstatement of the building subsidy scheme (to be applied to dwelling houses only) on the ground that since the cessation of the scheme there had been a serious lessening of building activity. Mr Andrew Fletcher, reporting on a visit which he and Mr W. F. Cuthbertson had made to the Unemployment Board, saicj; “ We were given much information which I am not in a position to pass on here to-night, but we were told that there was, still a considerable amount of work to be done that had not yet been started. It was stated that the board was not of the opinion that the time was yet ripe for the reinstatement of the scheme, but there was a free admission that one of the effects of the scheme had been the putting into employment of a great number of persons who had previously been working in the building and allied industries. The board was ‘ carefully watching the position of the trade - and unemployment, and we were told that in the event of finding that the conditions are going to mean a serious curtailment of work it would at least, consider giving enough employment under the scheme to meet the requirements.”