WORKERS' HOMES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10587, 19 March 1912, Page 6

WORKERS' HOMES

A WARNING FOR MASTERTON

(By Telegraph—Press Association.).

PALMEKSTON N\, Last Night. A good deal of delay occurred in connection with a scheme to establish a settlement at Terrace End by the Advances to Workers Department. An' intimation has now been received that the authorities are prepared to commence building, (but the assurance has come so late and under such circumstances that it is likely that most, if not all the prospective householders will withdraw from their engagements. A disappointing feature of the affair is that the estimates have turned out to he nowhere near . the actiial cost of the buildings. The experience of one local resident illustrates the inconvenience to "which they have been put. In June l.ast he applied lor a four-roomed house to be erected on a section 60ft x 115 ft. He w;is told by the authorities that the-cost of the building would 'be £285, to which had to be added £7o -for tho section- and a few pounds for administrative expenses. The aoplicant paid his deposit of £lO. The Department has intimated that the cost of a fourroomed dwelling would be £371, and the total, including land and expenses,- £458.75.