Home-building in New Zealand has not yet developed to the stage where a purchaser, selecting a design from a catalogue, and indicating any alterations he desires, may order the whole of the materials for any building listed, or alternatively may obtain from the suppliers a price for erecting a home on his own lot, complete and ready for occupancy. Yet an American organisation has perfected a scheme that does all this. “You can do anything,” as an expert says, “if you have the numbers,” and America certainly has the population to stand a system of this sort.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 646, 24 April 1929, Page 15
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97Home-building in New Zealand has not yet developed to the stage where a purchaser, selecting a design from a catalogue, and indicating any alterations he desires, may order the whole of the materials for any building listed, or alternatively may obtain from the suppliers a price for erecting a home on his own lot, complete and ready for occupancy. Yet an American organisation has perfected a scheme that does all this. “You can do anything,” as an expert says, “if you have the numbers,” and America certainly has the population to stand a system of this sort. Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 646, 24 April 1929, Page 15
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