HOUSE REPAIRS
BOMBED AREAS IN BRITAIN. SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS REPORTED. (By Telegraph—Press'Association—Copyright) LONDON. June 4. The Minister of Health, Mr Brown, who has just completed a tour of Britain’s bombed areas, said today that more than 80 per cent of the repairable houses had been made wind and weather-proof. There were 32,000 such houses in London and 40.000 in the provinces.
Damage to private houses was twice as great in London as in the rest of the country put together. About 80,000 men were working in the repair squads.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1941, Page 5
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88HOUSE REPAIRS Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1941, Page 5
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