“CONTROL VITAL”
BUILDING. NEEDS FAIR ALLOCATION LUXURY PLANS REJECTED (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 26. On his desk at Wellington were £15,000,000 worth of applications for building permits which he had rejected or postponed, said the Minister of Works. Mr. R. Semple, addressing Avon electors at Linwood yesterday. Some were from breweries for public houses, some were for luxury theatres, and some were for 8 and 10-roomed houses. If the building controls were lifted, he asked, how could the private builder. the ordinary man or the returned soldier compete in the supply and demand market with the millions the breweries had to spend? The war had loft New Zealand short of all building materials. Enough timber had been used in the Pacific to build 37,000 homes for the workers. It was a matter
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 26 May 1947, Page 2
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131“CONTROL VITAL” Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 26 May 1947, Page 2
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