. Hardware merchandising March-June 1919. millions of dollars for one section there is the general build-ing programme, and in the other thespecial programmesthat are to be under-taken by variousmunicipalities andfor which Govern-ment funds will beavailable. This lastis aimed to relievethe acute shortage ofdwellings that existsthroughout the Do-minion. Owing tothe difficulties in se-lecting types ofhomes that would besuitable and also ingetting the machiner-in operation for theirerection, there hasbeen considerable de-lay, but the situationnow is that scores ofmunicipalities areei
. Hardware merchandising March-June 1919. millions of dollars for one section there is the general build-ing programme, and in the other thespecial programmesthat are to be under-taken by variousmunicipalities andfor which Govern-ment funds will beavailable. This lastis aimed to relievethe acute shortage ofdwellings that existsthroughout the Do-minion. Owing tothe difficulties in se-lecting types ofhomes that would besuitable and also ingetting the machiner-in operation for theirerection, there hasbeen considerable de-lay, but the situationnow is that scores ofmunicipalities areeither ready or justabout ready to gothrough the procedurenecessary to obtainthe Government loans. is taking the lead in arranging to makeuse of the funds offered by the Govern-ment to relieve the housing problem. In all parts of the Province of Ontariomunicipal councils are making their plansfor taking advantage of the Govern-ments offer to provide funds to be use!in relieving the shortage of dealer:; are keenly interested. This is a type oftowns and villag house of which large n mbers are being built in the modeles of England. Amplz room, for gardening is a feature. Permits Doubled In the field of general building thereis every indication that a record seasonis ahead. Taking tbe Dominion provinceby province, the statistics available showthat the permits for February weredouble those issued a year ago. Thefigures for March, it is stated, will alsoshow a huge increase. Reliable in-formation from architects is to theeffect that they are busier than they havebeen for five years, and that they havenot only have enough work on hand tokeep them busy all this year, but theylook for a steady increase in the volumeof construction work. Ontario is one of the provinces which in this matter as it will mean large salesof building supplies, tools and other mer-chandise through the stores. There is abig chance here for hardwaremen to ren-der real service in the way of sugges-ti
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