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Chairman:

Appendix 'B' (contd.). (b) The Housing Advisory Committee (Jewish).

Members:

Mr. C. Wilson Brown, C.B.E., M.C., Controller of Heavy Industries and Director of War Production.

Mr. H. I. Becker, nominated by the Palestine Master Building Association, Jerusalem.

Mr. Ben Sira, nominated by the Association of Engineers and Architects, Tel Aviv.

Mr. M. Ettinger, nominated by the Bayside Land Corporation, Haifa.

Mr. Chaim Flexer, nominated by the Union of Building Works, Tel Aviv.

Dr. Herbert Foerder, nominated by the Rural and Suburban Settlement Co., Ltd., Tel Aviv.

Mr. Zion Kornfeld, nominated by the ManufacturerEi Association of Palestine, Tel Aviv.

Mr. Lippman Levinson, nominated by the Central Union of the Palestine Landlords Association, Tel Aviv.

Mr. Nahum L. Lifshitz, nominated by the Jewish Agency for Palestine, Jerusalem.

Dr. K. Moosberg, nominated by the Association of Building Materials and Hardware Trades.

Mr. E. Nesher, nominated by the Association of the Engineers and Architects in Palestine, Jerusalem branch.

Mr. Levy Shkolnik, nominated by the General Federation of Jewish Labour, Tel Aviv.

Mr. J. L. A. Watson, City Engineer, Haifa.

Mr. Zvi Wizansky, nominated by Sole! Boneh Ltd.

Appointed in December, 1945, to enquire into the various elements which constitute the present high cost of house-building in the Jewish areas of Palestine, to report to Government thereon and to make recommendations as to the action which should be taken to reduce such elements of cost.

Chairman:

(c) The Housing Advisory Committee (Legislation, etc.).

Members:

Mr. R. E. H. Crosbie, C.M.G., O.B.E., Chairman,

War Economic Advisory Council.

Basim Eff. Fares,

Mohamad Eff. Younis Husseini. Dr. S. Lustig.

Mr. J. M. Tocatly, M.B.E.

Appointed in December, 1945, to examine the reasons for the reluctance of private enterprise to build houses, including the legislation in force for rent restrictions and requisitioning, and to report whether. in equity to the landlords and without detriment to the interests of Government and of the tenants, any modification of existing legislation, or of administrative practice, could be recommended with reasonable expectation that private enterprise would thereby be stimulated.

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