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Reading Mercury Oxford Gazette Saturday, October 25, 1919. Pg 5

Reading Mercury Oxford Gazette Saturday, October 25, 1919. Pg 5

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Title Saturday, October 25, 1919. Pg 5
Page number Pg 5
Date Saturday, October 25, 1919.
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Publisher Reading Mercury, Oxford Gazette,

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COUNTY PAPER. SATURDAY. QCTOlllm
REAUrNG l\f�.RCOE'Y. QXFORD' GAZETTE. l\fEWBURY HERALD. AND BEIlKS
,ROYAL AgCOT GOLF

25.

1919

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crect 01 of eight houses at the sum

of £1 308 each without la ld fences

or loads based on

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CAR LIGHTING
STARTING

and

The
root of
conten tment

llassures

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contentment

"en rOl.Jte."

speClflcahons
suppl cd by the M I1Istry of Health
The a chltects calculated that by
str k gout eCI tall details a reduc
tlO 1 of £200 per hOllse might be
effected bl t the commIttee did not
feel jllstlned m gomg on wIth the
At these figures the h.lf
houses
a mill 01 houses w II never be bUIlt
have
wIiI
restnctlOns
BlI Idmg
to be relaxed as m uch as possible
and a larger latItude In the chOIce
of matenals all owed At the same
t me t IS no use shuttmg our eyes
lo the fact that the gn�at rise 111
pr ccs 15 d ue very largely to the de
n a 1ds for h gher wages and organ
lsed Labour sttll seems to be bhnd
to the fact that the more wages are
dr .. en up the htgher w 11 be the cost
And
of In II1g and houses to hve 1
yet the butldmg trades are asklllg
for more money1 If the State \\ants
to aVOId addmg largely to the
NatIOnal Debt a huge debt for
houses It had better repeal the land
taxes-that egregious folly of ti)e
People s Budget-whIch produce no
and encourage pnvate
revenue

buIidma.

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