CO-OPERATIVE CONTRACT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 148, 10 July 1937, Page 4

CO-OPERATIVE CONTRACT

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Wellington Carpenters9 Uilidii GroujJ STATE HOUSING CONSTRUGTION

. (By TelegrrapB-

Wellington, Last Night. An announcement that the first co- , bperative housing contract as between the Department of Housing Oonstruo tion and a co-operative group formed by the Wellington Oarpenters' Uniori had bCen approved by Cabinet was made to-riight by the Parliainetttary Under-Secretary in charge of housing, Mr J.- A t Lee.- He said it Only feinained now for thd Garpenttef s ' Union to fulfil the nortoal conditiotis Of contract imposed on all cofttraetofs, ariil a conrindricement could bc riiade. Mr Lee said he loolied With gjreat intorest toWard the developmerit Of the c6-6pcrative prinCiple iri housing, and that thd agre'etiient eritdred into or abdut tri be efitered irito by the' Carpenters ' Uriiori arid the Depaftment 6f Housing Cqristructioii shouid be an inspifatiou td -other groups of Carpenters to combine and secure a nii'ai* coutract. The Dunedin Carnpn+ers' TTmori hsd also at preserit a small contradt with the Dunedin City Council, and Mr Lee expressed the hope that carpenters' unioris iri othef dentres would follow the lirids of the Wellington union.