WORKERS’ DWELLINGS.
.(Per Press Association.) Wellington, laßt nigh
ArraDgemonts are now actively in progress for putting the Workers’ Dwellings Act into active operation, and the time is not far distant when a start will actually bo made with the erection of tbe hist of these edifices. The chief administration of the soheme has been vested in the Land Purchase Department, and land for the purpose has already been acquired at the Hutt aud Petone, and at Dunedin and Auckland. Negotiations for the purchase of laud are proceeding in various parts of the colony. are now being made dealing with tbe mannor in wbioh applications for workers’ dwellings shall be made. They are now before the law officers of the CrowD, aud will be gazetted shortly. The procedure up to that point is that the Commissioners of Crown Lands in each district notify that land has boon prepared (by roading, draining, and eo on) for tbe reception of dwellings, and i) will be for the Minister for Labor (who in this case is the Premier) to instruct the Public Works Department to have a building erected. Wbon completed it will bo handed over to the Land Board, which will deal with application.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1671, 10 February 1906, Page 2
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201WORKERS’ DWELLINGS. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1671, 10 February 1906, Page 2
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