BUILDING COSTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 198, 22 August 1942, Page 6

BUILDING COSTS

WANGANUI, Friday.

Criticism of building costs under the Defence Construction Order was expressed by Mr. R. G. Talboys at a meeting of the Wanganui Hospital Board when moving that an earlier resolution to proceed immediately with the construction of a new block of wards at the Jubilee Home for aged and infirm people be rescinded. He said that if the board called for tenders in the ordinary way 10 per cent or more of the £30,000 allocated to the work would be saved. He moved accordingly, but the motion was lost. s

Mr. W. J. Rogers, M.L.C., said the board had accepted the recommendation of the Public Works Department head office allocation committee in Wellington that the present firm be approved as contractors for the work and was now committed to this firm. The chairman, Mr. W. E. Broderick, said he had been informed that the Hawera Hospital Board would not build under the schedule because the costs were too high and that the architects to the Wairarapa and Christchurch Hospital Boards were also opposed to it. The board's architect, Mr. C. N. Hood, said the board should take the protection offered by the Defence Construction Order.