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TE -- IT CTS HOUSING IN ONTARIO | LITTLE ~ | { Results of Last Year's Op rations Show That Houses to toave your cold at BAG) it Can Be Built At Moderate Prices--A . (Dr. Hickoy's Speedy C il holds a definite place {fi ~ Gude For Kingston. (Dr. Hickey's Speedy Cure) in the home and no The report of the Bureau of Muni- cost of house Six other large! w oe THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG is THREE A = PROBS: --Wednesday, mild; occasional showers. ES Ee = = Ee = = = £2 E = = 2 E = = = Store Hours 9 to 5.30 daily except Saturday bana . Style While It's New" that will cure the Cough 'in a few doses. SHORT STOP at 15 cents ia Phonograph music is so true and sweet as |ll ciral Affairs for Ontario on Housing | solid brick houges, of special design. {in 1919 is of special interest to {and construction' were built at a that of { Kingstonians, because the fight |cost of $4,250 each. These included « Style At Its Best s still in the run too and also all THE FAMOUS the popular Cough and Cold [| | S : | which was aged in the city council last year centred around the pro- bable cost of building dwelling houses for working-class families. The chief objection taken to the f housing scheme presented was that ii it would not be possible to build i| houses at the figures named in the Ontario Housing Act. It was safd l| that Kingston as a municipality the value of the land in the price. | The operations have been so success- | ful that the commission is now con- | sidering the purchase of a large block of land for building purposes, and loans for five more houses have | been approved. : . . ¢ Brantford Township. The Township of Brantford, tak- 'The New Things A First At Steacy's The New and Deli ghtfully Different in SPRING FASHIONS FOR WOMEN AND MISSES. : With the enduring Charm of Style Distinction. ' i Ce TR jj| would be liable for g 'heavy loss in |ing its cue from the city, also wen | -- some cases should the citizens ob-|into the building business. : Nine | == || taining loans default in their pay- | houses in all were built. Two of | ments. These points are so admir- [these were four-roomed, clapboard | |] ably covered and refuted by official | finish, and cost $2,100 each. Two figures and statistics that it is worth | were six-roomed frame, with stucco | while to bring the report beforegythe | finish, and cost $3,000 each. Three | == || notice. of the people of Kingston. | were six-roomed, brick veneer, cost- There is a possibility that the Drury {ing an average of $2,833.33 each. |= Goxernment will extepd and carry | These three houses were of a stand- | jj on the Ontario Housing Act, and in |ardized type, and the cost was there- | = that case the results obtained in |by reduced considerably. The two | other cities will prove of value to others were hollow tile dwellings of |= remedies stocked. At Best's with its "Singing Throat" of Silver Grain Spruce. The Difference Is In The Tone Kedey Jr, MD. Hil ~ Let us demonstrate this to you. Keeley Jr., M.0.D.0. SMITH BROS. Wiha optometrist ot today. fo do JEWELERS good work must not only be . 3iipped with the best mechan. Limited apparatus but must have Esta) that knowledge in its use Bished 13840 WHICH ONLY LONG EXPERI. ENCF CAN GIVE. Insure Against After Regrets by Using Glasses Prescribed, Made and Fitted by It is this combination of mind "and machinery of experience and equipment that makes ==" ni Erie id --~-- MN : praia DIT Photographs are seldom true to TITS Eni ve envied vision nature, No one ever saw a small boy as clean as he appears in a pic- of who al- ture. A brilliant orator is on the right Much of the charity that begins | ways uses the right word i abroad never reaches home. place at the right, time. ari oA -- RL -- ---- » . NOW IS THE TIME to get your PAINT for Spring Painting. We are making a clearing of Ramsay's Paints and, having only twenty-five different shades left, we advise you to buy now. We are offering this high-grade Paint at a price which no retailer could get to-day. Our price is I c $4.50 PER GAL. Come and se¢ our large display in our win- dow. . W, A. MITCHELL, Manager Hardware Department, THE BIG BUSY HARDWARE PHONE 287. - - - rad BROCK STREET in deciding what steps shall be taken to meet prevailing housing shortage. In all ninety-nine municipalities passed a by-law to come under the provisions of the Ontario Housing Act. Of these, nineteen were cities, forty-nine towns, ceventeen villages and fourteen townships. Sixty-eight municipalities have already con- structed. houses, and all contemplate construction on a much larger scale in 1920, so satisfactory has been the result. The total amount appropri- ated by municipalities during the year was $10,629,000, and it is esti- mated that 'over $8,000,000 more will be needed to carry out'the plans for 1920. In the majority of the municipali- ties coming under the act, the: muni- cipality appointed a commission and made the loans to individuals desir- ing to build houses. In some cities and towns, however, housing: com- panies were formed to carry out the provisions of the act. Municip§tities adopting this plan were HaWkes-' bury, Hamilton, Fergus, Iroquois Falls, , Listowel, Kitchener and Waterloo. In these cases large loans were made to the companies at five per cent. interest, and houses were built in large number on a standard plan, with deviations only in ex- terior appearance. This meant a great saving in cost and a consequent reduction in the price of building. The Costs of Building. The report of the bureau gives a detailed statement of the cost of building in the various municipali- ties which came under the provi: sions of the act. These figures show that it is possible to build houses of solid construction, of a size suitable for working clasp families, at a price which will co well within the means of working men. The high rents which are at present being paid for all classes of property have to be nfet by: working men, and in paying them the tenant is simply pouring money intg-<the landlord's pocket. But in most cases it has been found that the monthly charges of all kinds on houses built under the Ontario Housing Act are less than the average monthly rental for 'houses of the same type in the lo- cality. The following detailed state- ment of what other municipalities, have done should serve to prove that, unless there are some unusual factors in Kingston which make building costs very much above the average, the Ontario -Housing Act {would be of great benefit | city, in enabling working men to se- in this cure their own homes at moderate . prices and on easy terms. Acton. In the municipality of Acton the Housing Commission purchased seven lots for building purposes at a cost of $286.71 per lot. So far only one house has been completed. This was a six-roomed, brick veneer dwelling, and it was built at a cost of $3,000. More houses are to be built during the ent year. Barton Township. ; In Barton township twenty-four houses in all were built by the Heous- ing Commission. Of these, ten were five-roomed, solid brick dwellings, built at an average cost of $2,218 each. The remaining fourteen were six-roomed, solid brick houses, and they cost, on an average, $2,895. In addition to these, four more appli- cations were made to build six- roomed, solid brick houses at an average cost of $2,836.60. Beaverton. r The municipality of Beaverton has ? ag yet built on a large scale, only two h d so far. Make the necessary Spring selec tion now while our stocks are large. | R COVERINGS of all desériptions--Linoleums (inlaid and printed), Neponset, Dunoleum, - Congoleum and Feltol---all priced at less than the wholesale cost to-day. T.F. HARRISON CO., LTD. being P These were both six-roomed, brick- Yancer dwellings, and cost $2,750 he . : Belleville. v The work done in Belleville dur- ing 1919 was of a more or less ex- These two cost a total of $4,700, averaging $3,- 350 each. Three applications the citizens and council of Kingston | number of houses requiring the same over six rooms, and cost $3,000 each. | = Capreol. | Fourteen six-room frame houses, | with clapboard finish, 'were built by | the municipality of Capreol. These cost a total of $41,000, or an aver- age of $2,928 for each house. In Cochrane. ] In the town of Cochrane fourteen | dwellings of various sizes and types | were erected. One was a five-room- | ed frame house with stucco finish, ! costing $2,000. Two more were six- roomed houses of the same construc- | Three | tion, and cost $3,000 each. were six-roomed, solid brick, hollow tile or concrete houses, and cost | $3,000. Three more werg_ six-room- ed brick veener houses, #nd cost $2,- | 600 each. The remaining two were over six rooms, and of solid brick, and cost $3,350 each." Elmira, The housing commission of the municipality of Elmira purchased four, building lots'at a cost of $160 each. Six houses ve been erected by the commission, two of them on lots belonging to the persons secur- ing the loan. The average cost of these houses, which were six-room- ed brick veneer dwelling, was $2, 500. Englehart. In the municipality .of Englehart only three: houses were completed in 11919. One was a six-roomed frame house, with clapboard finish, costing $2,600; another was over six rooms and of the same construc- tion, and cost exactly the same, while the third was a six-roomed brick veneer house, costing $3,000. w-- : * Etobicoke Township. Eight six-roomed houses of vari- | ous kinds of construction were built by the housing commission of Bto- bicoke Township at a total cost of $24,000, making each house cost an average of $3700. . Shgrrn-- % Fergus. In the municipality of - Fergus much of the building was done by the Fergus Housing Company, Ltd., a company incorporated to operate | under the terms of the Ontario Housing Act. In 'all eighteen houses have been completed. Two we X- roomed, frame houses, with stucto finish, costing $:,600 each. Five were six-roomed, brick veneer houses, and cost $2,600 each. From these figures it would seem as though the increased price of lumber makes a frame house almost as ex- pensive to bulld as a brick veneer house of similar size. This conten- tion is made by he director of hous- ing in the report, and he, there- fore, advocates the building of dwellings of solid construction in preférence to frame houses. COO EC EH EO OO Ford City. In Ford City a total of forty houses were erected by the housing commission. Six were six-roomed frame dwellings, with stucco finish, built at a costiof $3,000 each. Four were six-roomed brick veneer houses, and the cost was slightly Jess, amounting to $2,876 for each house. Thirty-one solid brick, hollow tile or concrete houses were built from standardized plans, and the cost was thereby reduced to $2,938.38 each. This shows the value of standardiz- ing materials, as the cost can be greatly lessendd by building a large sizes of lumber, etc. Fort William. Pn Fort William three houses were built under the Ontario Hous- ing Act. One of these was a five- roomed, brick veneer house, costing New Tailored Suits Cy New modes distinctly out of the ordinary, fault- lesSly tailored, all details given particular atten-. tion-- smartly trimmed with buttons, others: more elaborately trimmed. Blue reigns as the favored color, but we also feature a number of tans, greys. Prices range from $25.00 up to $125.00. . Smart Spring Coats Graeeful in lines--the Utilit y Coat-Polo Coat and Sports Coat --made up in Tweeds, Covert Cloths, Wool Serge, Tricotine, etc. Priced moderately. "$19.75 up to $85.00. Dresses Thr Ears x Spring An infinite variety that finds expression through the fineness f materials, grace of line, exquisite designing--Taffetta Silk, Georg- § ettes, Tricotines, Wool Serge--prices are moderate, + $22.50 up to $85.00: New and Charming--to Complete the Spring Costume. 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