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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18015, 6 March 1924, Page 9

Before tho Builders' Conference at Auckland disbanded a visiting delegate started for a stroll in the early mornin to see some of <xho now structures in and about the city, and he was lucky enough to feeet a friend who could direct him to the most important of w these places and take him to them in a motor. The first halt was at a big build, ing near the "wharf, and in answfer to a question the Aucklander told the visitor that the contractor was Air So-aod-So, of Wellington. The second building they called at was being put , up, so the questioner was informed, by >■■■: a man from Christchnrch. At the third they they , found another Cantorbury contractor doing the work; at the fourth it was a Dunedin builder; at • the Jifth another Wellington contract in progress; andy coming to the biggest job of all, the. Dunedin company was piling up the bricks and stone. The (visitor asked if there was any big job that Aucklander* were ;v~ doing for themselves, or had recently , l i done, and the piloting builder answer? \ ed that the most important he oould \ think of waa the waterworks dam. • y|