Ingenious prefabricated houses like this, made by reprocessing old newspapers into sturdy pressed board, are one means by which the United States Government avoids a wartime housing problem in mushroom American industrial centres. Workmen here are removing the gable end of one of the houses, which can be taken down, moved to another site and erected again in less than eight hours.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19420825.2.69.1
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1942, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
62Ingenious prefabricated houses like this, made by reprocessing old newspapers into sturdy pressed board, are one means by which the United States Government avoids a wartime housing problem in mushroom American industrial centres. Workmen here are removing the gable end of one of the houses, which can be taken down, moved to another site and erected again in less than eight hours. Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1942, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in