UNNECESSARY BUILDING TO STOP.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3492, 21 May 1920, Page 2

UNNECESSARY BUILDING TO STOP.

GOVBRN'M.I*JN’I‘ TAKES ACTI()N. ONLY RI*}SIDI§NCES TO ‘BE BUILT. i WELLINGTON, May 19. The Government has decided to put I into operation the power it has under I Statute of stopping unneeessary_ibuildiing in order that available labour and capital for building nmy be coneentratetl. on the construction of ’houses, the object of the decision being to recover some of the present housing shortage all over the country. Mr Massey said to—de.y that Cabinet; had decided tolforce certain war regulations "but they would be applied pnly to building works, not to any other works, and t.hejv' Would not be applied to _-any building in course of construction. People wishing to einbark upon building enterprises other than the building; of residential places must, in futurC.eome to the Minlst.e.r of Finance, and the Blinister would act in ae.cor(lallCo with regulations until the present housing‘ difficulty comes to -an end, or that phase of it cmised by the shortage of labour and sliorttige of materials. Mr M:lsse_V said that he had been informed by the Labour Department that there were 1200 residences at present in course of erection int New Zealand, ‘