BUILDING SCHEME.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 221, 18 August 1937, Page 2

BUILDING SCHEME.

FILLIP TO BUILDING. Per Press Association. AVELLINGTON, Aug, 18. Opening the annual conference of the New Zealand Sawmillers’ Federation to-day, Hon. F. Langstone (Commissioner of State Forests) quoted an array of figures to show the terrible effects of the slump period on the industry and in the provision of homes for the people, the loss to the building trades and the loss to youth for the want of openings to these trades. He said that when the housing survey was completed it will show a of tens of thousands of houses, and the sawmilling and allied trades, he suggested. could look forward with confidence to a busy future. It was the proclaimed policy of the Government to use in the State dwellings as much New Zealand material as possible and to spread the materials used over as wide field as possible. For instance, New Zealand made tiles were being used instead of imported corrugated iron.

Speaking of the curtailment of the export of white pine, Mr Langstone 6aid that, much as he regretted this, we must preserve and protect New Zealand interests, and he felt sure that for the most'part the federation would co-operate with the Government in providing the necessary white pine to meet the requirements of the dairy industry, which played such an important part in our export trade.