AMENDMENTS MADE
RURAL HOUSING BILL MAXIMUM STRUCK OUT (Special to Times) WELLINGTON, Friday Several amendments were made to the Rural Housing Bill during the committee stages on the measure in the House of Representatives today. The clause limiting to £750 the maximum that may be granted was struck out and the total amount that may be advanced is to be left to the State Advances Corporation and the county councils concerned. The Minister of Housing, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, explained that another amendment provided that, if a local body did not wish to exercise its borrowing authority, the farmer could go direct to the State Advances Corporation. The houses built under the bill would not come under the Rent Restriction Act or the Fair Rents Act The bill was read s LuU time and passed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20923, 30 September 1939, Page 9
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136AMENDMENTS MADE Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20923, 30 September 1939, Page 9
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