WHY CAN'T N.Z. DO IT?
South Australian Housing : Cost £450, kerttal l?/6 "Such a hougjng scheme etery* man would endorse," commented Mr Hugjh W. G. Baird, president of the Hastings Chamber of Commerce, last evening at the meeting of that body when he referred to a recent report from Austrar lia that at Adelaide it was proposed to spend some £25,000 on a building scheme uhder which the houses would cost £450 to erect and the rent wojild work out at about 12/6 a week. "Now why can't our Government do something like that over here?" he asked. Mr F. E. Smith: They intended to do 60. Mr F. G. Rush-Munro: Then they c+;sixted to build- them. so muoh nicer.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 156, 20 July 1937, Page 7
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