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British Gov't Will Boost | Prefabricated Buildings

By CAROL KENNEDY | ‘The government's new push LONDON (CP)—The nod | building will concentrate on

a weniger nag Pn g eee 8 seven major urban areas, led by London. Only large areas |

huilding methods as a means of can provide the huge —

easing Britain's chronic hous- ing shortage This could lead to |required by efficint production of factory-built homes.

an increase of timber imports from andina possibly —_ > = Crossman said one problem | Housing Minister Richard |facing the government in-sell- | Crossman told a press confer-jing the idea of prefabricated ence here the Labor govern-|methods’ was the “very bad ment hopes to produce 100,000 |press” the post-war ‘‘prefabs” factory-built homes a year by |had in Britain—though he added 1970. High - quality prefabrica-|that these much - denigrated tion is relatively new in Brit- homes weré often approved by ain ;the vpeople who lived in them Cressman.has already ad- leapectalty by housewives who vised towns and counties im |found them convenient to run England and Wales that by in-| Noting the criticism that the creasing and improving their jold-style prefabs were often a use of prefabricated’ methods | blot on the landscape, Crossman they could help raise the na-/said the government would im- tional. house-building program |sist that the new campaign ‘po 500,000 homes a year by 1970. |make the fullest use of archl- Without increased — productivity |tects to raise the quality of mu- hy these methods, such a tar- |nicipal housing: | get would require an additional

Fs wo Aa tor come ak a oe ‘Com sad ae Gifts that say 45 Crossman said: p an

ue "Aa The aim is to build 40 per cent | d M ki OPEN ME FIRST’: of municipal dwellings by these Boar To ark re systems, beg bane timber tacsl for a. framing wide Canada It ‘ The government plans to raise Ha -Century ae ‘ ‘ts present £70,000,000 ($210,- fe 900.000 housing subsidies by’ KEARNEY, Ont. (CP)—Karly s

£15,000,000 ($45,000,000) in two/in 1966 the Workmen's Compen- years sation Board celebrates a half-

Some 50 different systems of |century of operations in On- | prefabricated building are be- | tario. ing appraised by the Nationa! Building Agency, an independ-| happened in this bush commu- ent body set up under the Con- | nity: 50 miles south -of North servative government to help |Ray, Jan. 1, 1916. A 49-year-old increase productivity i» the/iumber teamster, John Masters, building industry. was incapacitated when a fall REPLIES TO QUERIES damaged his hand.

A. W. Cleeve Barr, deputy Compensation at that time chairman and chief architect of | was 55 per cent of the average the NBA, replying to questions | weekly wage for the previous

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along with Crossman, said|year, so Masters was paid od there certainly would be an in-|a ‘week for his 22 weeks crease |in the use of timber | work. | frames in Britain, but he was! The disability was permanent not prepared to say how much|so he as awarded a_ small would come from Canada and | pension, later commuted to a) how much from Scandinavian |lump sum. countries. : The problem, Cleeve Barr | fj raid, is whether Canadian ex-

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