PAINTERS' FEARS
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Housing Scheme Will Raise Jheir Costs ^ IMPORTS^EQUTO
(By Telegraph—
CHEISTOHUECH, This Dajw Eeferring to the" Government housing: scheme, the report of the l&initera* Federation, to be presented to a aon* ference now sitting at Christehnreh, aska how sufficient xaw material can ba made available without •xcee8tvar=importation for a huilding programme, of 9000 or 10,000 houses In the next .twelve months. " ' Such an, abnorinal increase"" m fhe demand, says the report, can only have the effect of abnormal increasei in prices. | The report states that. ihe buRdlng trade figures show that from "6006 te 700o houses per annum were built in New Zealan.d in -booxn periods and, If tho Government builds an additional 5000 to 6000, the Federation asks how, •this could be done without greaf-diB4' ruption of the buijding trade, • 1 - 'i
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 33, 23 February 1937, Page 5
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136PAINTERS' FEARS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 33, 23 February 1937, Page 5
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