STATE HOUSES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20101, 22 November 1939, Page 12

STATE HOUSES

THIRD LOT FOR WAIROA ADDITIONAL THIRTEEN FIVE READY SHORTLY (Special to tlm Herald.) WAIROA, this day. According to advice received from the Housing Department, it has been decided to erect 13 more State houses in Wairoa. Tenders for the erection of the nouses have been called and will close on December 14, It is proposed to let the tenders in three separate contracts, one ol seven units, one of four units, and one of two units. The advice received does not indicate where the third batch of houses will be situated, but it is practically certain that they will be erected in the vicinity of the second batch of houses on what can be termed, for the lack of a better name, the State housing block on the Campbell street .sub-division. When these houses have been completed it will bring the total number of Government-owned houses in Wairoa up to 35, 12 being included in the first batch and 10 in the second. When the additional 13 houses have been erected there will be room stiil for 14 more residences on the block, but it is perhaps a little early yet to state whether the remaining sections will be built on in the near future. In the meantime steady progress is being made by the contractor, D. Glengarry, Limited, on the second batch of houses. In the case of five of them all the carpentering and woodwork have been completed and all that remains to be done to these is the wall-papering and other interior decorating. Yn the case of the remaining houses it is estimated that all the carpentering work will have been finished within the next three weeks, when the houses will be handed over to the painters Five of the houses, it is thought, will be handed over to the Housing Department ready for occupation by. the end of this year, and the whole block will have been completed by the end of January.