DEFENCE WORKS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 304, 24 December 1941, Page 6

DEFENCE WORKS

BUILDING CONTROL NOTICE GAZETTED <P.A.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Urgent defence construction works will be given first preference in regard to manpower and materials as the result of a building construction control notice which is being gazetted, said the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister of Supply. "Following Japan's entry into the war and the calling up of further men for service in the armed forces, it is essential that all defence construction should be speeded up and the necessary manpower diverted temporarily to meet these requirements," he said.' "Further, owing to the uncertainty of the future supply position, It Is necessary for stricter control of building to be exercised. Some Exemptions "Local authorities will be required not to issue building permits for building or constructional work necessitating the use of more than five hundredweight of structural or reinforcing steel or costing more than £100 without the consent of the building controller. The notice will not c.pply to the erection of dwellings of an estimated cost not exceeding £1500 provided less than five hundredweight of steel is required. "It is further stipulated that all building and constructional works which nave been commenced, or for which local authorities have issued permits, may not be proceeded with after January 31 unless the works have been reviewed and granted a out above."

The Minister said that, as the special permit by the building controller. This does not apply to works requiring less than five hundredweight of steel or to dwellings as set building industry was one of the largest in the Dominion, it had lost a proportionately large number of men to the armed forces, and the recent calling up of men for home defence had made a further drain on the industry. He therefore appealed to the public to assist by not putting forward at the present time building or constructional work which could be deferred at least until the present emergency had passed.

I'm of Roofing Materials Referring to roofing materials, the Minister „ said a further control notice would be issued requiring that except with the building controller s consent no person nviy use galvanised corrugated steel sheet for any constructional work other than the repair of existing roofs, or for the manufacture of supply tanks of 400-gallon capacity or more. Corrugated terne sheets (lead-tin alloy coated sheets) would be subject to the same restrictions, but the "se of this material for the manufacture of supply tanks or for roofing purposes on buildings, the water 13 for domestic RiUKL es * was obviously unwise for « r^ as ? ns " use of corrugated asbestos cement sheets on the StlH°L bufidi , ngs w °uld be L u a c * ause requiring that such sheets may not be used otherwise than for roofing purnose<; StWith the building controverts