WORKERS' DWELLINGS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8046, 10 February 1906, Page 2

WORKERS' DWELLINGS.

PUTTING THE ACT INTO OPERATION. I'KII I'UESS ASSOCIATION. Wem.ixiitox, February il. Arrangements arc now actively in progress for putting the Workers' Dwellings Act iuto active operation, and the time is not far distant when a start will actually be made with the erection of the tirst of these edifices. The chief administration of the scheme has been vested in the Land Purchase Department, ami laud for the purpose has been acquired at the Hut! ami Petone, and at Dunediii and Auckland. Negotiations for the purchase of laud are proceeding in various parts of the colony. Regulations are are now being made, dealing with the manner in which applications for workers' dwellings shall be made, Tliey are uow before the Law officers of the Crown, and will be gazetted shortly. The proceeding up to that point is that the Commissioners of Crown lands in each district, notify that land has been prepared (by roading, draining and so on) for the reception of dwellings, and it will be for the Minister for Labor (who in this ease is the Premier) to instruct the Public Works Department to have the buildings erected. When completed, they will be handed over to the Land Board, which will deal with the applications.