WORK TO CONTINUE
STATE HOUSING PLAN STATEMENT BY MINISTER (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. “The housing programme will be continued just as fast as it is humanly possible for us to do it, utilising the services of all the men and material that are available,” said the Minister of Housing, the Plon. H. T. Armstrong, this morning. When the tradesmen at present working on the construction of buildings at the military camps were finished it was hoped that they would take up their previous work where they had left it oft'.
Emphasising the necessity for keeping on with the building programme, Mr. Armstrong pointed out that while about 6000 skilled .workers were engaged directly in the work, it was estimated that some 4000 to 4500 other people were dependent on it.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20050, 23 September 1939, Page 6
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132WORK TO CONTINUE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20050, 23 September 1939, Page 6
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