COTTAGE A DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21207, 2 September 1940, Page 4

COTTAGE A DAY

FARM ACCOMMODATION DEMAND IN TARANAKI (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) NEW PLYMOUTH, Saturday Cottages at the rate of one a day are being built in Taranaki for supply by the Government at a low rate to farmers as accommodation for married employees. Hawera and Inglewood State housing contracts have been temporarily suspended to release tradesmen for work on the cottages. About 40 to 50 are being built under contract to the Public Works Department by Messrs Boon Bros., at their Stratford and New Plymouth yards. There was no shortage of the materials required for the cottages, said Mr George Boon. He believed that the Government had made materials for the cottages specially available, so urgently were they required. He pointed out that the work absorbed a great amount of galvanised iron. Much was used in the corrugated iron gable roofs and the chimneys were made of flat galvanised iron. Two gangs of five men were engaged in putting the cottages up in the country, travelling from farm to farm by motor-lorry. The work was being carried on all over the province.

The farm cottages consist of three rooms, weather-boarding walls and match-lining on the interior. There is a bathroom and wash-house incorporated. and draining is provided for with 30 feet of piping and a septic disposal sump. The kitchen is complete with stove.