HOUSING PROGRAMME
hopes of Vigorous PROSECUTION.
STATEMENT BY MINISTER.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
“The housing programme will be continued just as fast as it is humanly possible for us to do it, utilising the services of all the men and all the material that are available,” said the Minister of Housing (Mr Armstrong) this morning. When the tradesmen at present working on the construction of buildings at military camps were finished, Mr Armstrong said, it was hoped that they would take up their previous work where they had left it oft'. Emphasising the necessity for keeping on with the building programme, Mr Armstrong pointed out that while about 6,000 skilled.workers were engaged directly in the work, it was estimated that some 4,000 to 4.500 other people were dependent on it.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1939, Page 8
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132HOUSING PROGRAMME Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1939, Page 8
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