State House Building in Wellington.

Progress, Volume XVI, Issue 6, 1 February 1921, Page 133

State House Building in Wellington.

Twenty-two houses have been built by the State at Miramar, Wellington, under the direction of the Housing Department.

The latest difficulty that the Department has encountered is a substantial rise in the price of cement. On January ist the price rose by 365. a ton. Fourteen tons of cement are used in the smaller type of concrete dwelling erected by the Department. When the houses were started the cost of cement was about £4 17s. 6d. a ton. Now it is £g 13s. 6d. The Department is considering building dwellings with brick exterior, wooden studs, and wooden lining, and is also arranging now to proceed with the erection of a number of wooden houses at Petone.

Reading and drainage are being proceeded with on the Department’s new model township, and the erecting of houses where road frontages already exist.