BLACK MARKET BUILDERS
ACTION PLANNED IN BRITAIN (NZ. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, January 21. The Minister of Works (Mr George Tomlinson), declaring war on black market builders, announced that he had made an order empowering local authorities to take proceedings themselves against building control offenders instead of confiding prosecution powers to the Ministry. The present limits of the cost above which licences were necessary for building would be retained f°r six months and the exception would be discontinued by which work could be carried out on private dwellings with unpaid labour. Mr Tomlinson said that this provision had been seriously abused and unscrupulous individuals had been enabled to do extensive work. It was believed that labour had been paid, but when challenged the individuals insisted that labour had not been paid and afterwards it had been impossible to trace the labour employed or obtain the necessary legal evidence for prosecutions. He thought that the new decisions would stop a lot of illegal building.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25090, 23 January 1947, Page 3
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