MUST BE EXPEDITED.
n STATE HOUSING SCHEME. r e GREAT UNSATISFIED DEMAND. c (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. A hint that the Government might be taking practical steps to expedite the progress of its housing scheme was given by the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, when the difficulties of getting skilled labour were referred to him to-day. "We have to travel at a greater rate than we are at present in the building of houses." lie said. "Every carpenter in New Zealand can be fully employed, or as fully employed as he lias ever been. People want the houses. Even at the present rate of progress—and it is greater than ever before—l will have passed a'way before the problem 3 is anything like being solved. I want lo see people get their homes in my 1 lifetime. "We are limited only by material " and labour, labour in the main. if l artisans are not there to do the work • and they cannot lie obtained from other sources it is up to us to see that
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20277, 20 August 1937, Page 8
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174MUST BE EXPEDITED. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20277, 20 August 1937, Page 8
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