AN ARCHITECT'S FEES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 71, 23 March 1908, Page 5

AN ARCHITECT'S FEES.

CHAEITABLE ATT) BOARD AND ITS

At the meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board to-day Mr. G. W. Allsopp, architect to the Board, wrote acreceipt of the committee appointed, to go into the question of his fees. ...-';; . . ; -,.■

The sub-committee's report.stated that the Board had only paid the fees and charges agreed upon at.the time of the appointment, except the 3 per cent charged for copies of detail plans and specifications supplied to the clerk of works, which charge the committee thought should be refunded to the Board. He also reported that the payments in future should not exceed 5 per cent of the total expenditure, this charge to be an inclusive one.

In reply, Mr. Allsop said that when *he Board advised for applications , for the position in 1908 they stated that the commission and fees required must not be less than the current rate prevailing in this part of New Zealand.vElevei out of the twelve applicants stated that their fees would be the rates fixed by the New Zealand Institute of Architects. He had had previous experience of hospital work, and after appointment took a two months' trip through the Commonwealth at his own expense in order to be able to give the Board the benefit of having their work finished in the most modern and approved methods. Every plan and specification submitted by him. for criticism had been signed and approved without the slightest alterations by Dr. McGregor, while the present Inspector-General of Hospitals in a report on the last plain said: "I have nothing but praise to say for the way the building has been .designed, and the specifications drawn up." Hβ could not think that the Board would wish their architect, with these proofs of his qualifications before them, to receive less commission than was being paid to any other architect in the Dominion. The City Counc'l paid their architect on the abattoirs the current rate of commission, as did the Harbour Board on their £00,000 building. Current rates were also being paid in Dunedin \ and Hamilton for hospital buildings.