*‘ili'ne Gm Mon. June 15, 19a.

:Gov'tSees Huge Success In Winter Housing Bonus

By DON HAN'RIGIH

OTTAWA (CPD—Tho govern- ment believes it has scored a

limping lueceu with It: $500 'bonus to purchasero of winter- built houses.

The object was to create win— ter employment by living house-builders an incentive to “stretch their business over a full year. instead of concentrat- liiz on eight warm - weather months.

From evidence available so liar. it appears scheme worked. In fact it worked better

than even the most optimisticj had toreaeen. ("summer bonuses"

ofﬁcials here

1 Finance Minister Gordon aa- 'nouoced recently that the pro— gram will be repeated next win- lot.

The device ls simple: The government sends a $500 cheque to anyone. who is the first buyer of a new house built between Dec 1 and March l. The buyer the money as he Wished In practice many en- dorsed it over to the builder as part of the down payment. 'SIJGH’I‘ LEEWAY

he_scheme was announced early enough to allow builders to pour foundations before the cold weather They also were

allowed to string first - floor .loists ore Dec. l——but it they went any further. the house'

Would not qualify for a bonus. The ultimate result was that the government paid bonuses on_ 23.035 houses completed in the. tour-month period. it cost the federal treasury 513064.300,

e labor department esti- mates that completing those houses provided 90.000 nit-site

lobs and another 113.000 oil‘site lobs such as in sawmills. supply and s e r i‘ l r- e companies and: transportation. This totals MR

But Since an estimated ha” of these house; probahli “mild have been built anywav regard» Jess of the lionus. the real extra jobs created total a little over 1

_ .00 (Ill) - But there is home doubt over

.whether the house-timers act ,tull value from I'IlEl!’ $300 an“. eminent cheaue COSTS HIGHER

Winter constiuctlon c c s t ~

3 more. Some builders place the extra cost a heating is the big‘ Jar-tor — at between $250 and. $400 Others say it i: a: lush as but amernment offt cials discredit this figure What r the amount. the price was 'hizlisr 7

Another element was the hit ha] tourrsr‘cen‘ rate on the new buildiii - materials sales ta This rose to eight. pe.r cent. on April 1. and is scheduled to. reach 11 per cent next Jan. !.

‘desgn shortly and would stand

gIEﬁleF on a

m to lend support and mod- tlon to the government.

Several hundred letters a day still pour into the prime minis- ter’s office. a majority of them said to favor the new flag. 0c- lcasionally there have been mix jups in the replies to the pro and con letters. resulting in con- tusion on h part of recipients.

Meanwhile all over (‘ana a individuals and organizations IR is applied at the manufac-lhint may lie in these provincial; have taken their stand on the lture-rs‘ level but to passed onitotals of bonuses paid: .t emotion-charged flag issue. to builders. i Newfoundland 152. Prince Edy,

The average cost of a bunga-i ward Island 22. Nova Scone" CALL DESIGN msmm low ﬁnanced under the Nationalim. New Brunswick 235, Quo- T‘lfel" noted Canadians. in- lHousing Act rose by 23 cents a ‘ bec 10.287. Ontario 0.331. Mani-j Clll‘llﬂﬂ l UlllVel‘Slly President ‘square foot to $10.78 between toba 1.3m Saskatchewan 1.114.? and three professors. wrote to lithe first quarter oi 1963 and the Alberta 3.7m. British Columbial the prime minister andnsaid the

l January - period this i 2.448. and the Yukon and North-i 182 W3! "l I} 5.1? _l d The" I vear. 0n the average Lam-l west Territories. 11. ' should be a distinctive flag. but ‘ one rich in tradition.

‘square - foot bungalow. meant an extra 3276. Since ttht‘n. house prices have. shot up azain. it is believed .here. Large builders in 'l‘or- onto, Ottawa and Montreal have. been advertising their own; ctor will in varying l house prices by then. The ques- amounts as a sales gimmick. ltion is how much winter However. government officials ‘ mand for housing can be etim<

that: Meanwhile. there are some; nagging doubts among observ-f ers here whether a warmed-l over version of the. scheme next‘ winter will prove as tasty to builders and buyers. t

be higher‘

The Ontario Junior Chamber of Commerce has endorsed the proposed flag as ‘another mile-

Imperial Order Daughters OI the Empire told Mr. Pearson it ‘deplores" the fact that Cana- dians "are being deprived of their right“ to vote on the flag

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are conﬁdent that the bonus‘ulaled by another bonus offers "6mm brought people into the housing; In the interim. there has been; q ‘ ,' market who. because they fither-inone of the usual government, PNT'" “5380 M Quebec wiso didn't have enough for a ballyhoo about the, decision to passany pleased WllIl

, was . ' down payment, wouldnt have;repeat the venture. The chiefl he “9"” duly“ Prem‘er small"

' wood of Newfoundland said his

been there, reasnn. it was learned. is that». . N0 STATISTICS the. builders are afraid that Web province would "continue to fly There statistics to publicity will damage their sum— "‘9 U'm’" "aCk ‘! we are the back up this contention. ()ne. mer business_ , last. place in Canada to do it." " ‘ Former premier Leslie Frost of up for 5.5;“. m 0.," Me Ontario said he voted e Red Ensign.

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SAYS EMOTION IDRAINFII)

A Liberal member said he thought the daily question per~ ind over the last month drained out min-h n! the emotion and "tin: thin: might luat go through without too much fuss." ‘

"Like said a Conserva- l h“. when told of this theory [ "There'll be fuss all FlEI’lI." i

There have been almost daily ‘ blow-ups in the Commons. dur- iii; 0 u est i on period. since ' Prime Minister Fearson llldl- cated May 14. that the govern- l men! would propose a new ﬂag I

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or fall on the resulting vote.

The design at three red maple white background blue bars at the bordm was made public May 27. and since then thousands of . th= flags have been manufao ‘ lured 1

At the reunezl of NDP mem- bers. \lr, Pearson arranged to have the new design flown tron! a Parliament Hill flagpole for about fmu‘ hours Friday. But this was done only alter a. long Commons wrangle over Conser- vative charges that the govern- ment was abusmg its rights by _ domg With

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Cuts hours off travel time to MONTREAL and to other MARITIME points

Now CN fravol trom P.E.l. lg hours taster. And so much more convenient. Bacauso thqrg's a brand now SMT bus service daily meeting the. Ocean Limited—and a second service connecting with the Scotiao—at Amherst. The huge savings in travel time between my. and Amherst are matched by the bargains in travel costs. Now. CN‘s

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The CM and SMT bus-tall cenoectitios at Amherst WIII also greatly reduce travel times to Othar Maritime centres. Never have CN travellers on the Ocean Limited and

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Savings In travel Have:

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