EDUCATION BUILDINGS
Difficulty In Waikato
(NX Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 10.
The effects on the education building programme of over-commitment of the building industry in the Waikato area was causing him grave concern the Minister of Education (Mr Tennent) said today. “The Minister of Works (Mr Goosman) recently referred to the difficulties which the Government was experiencing in arranging satisfactory contracts for Government works in the area and the position was forcibly brought home to me. when I had placed before me the tenders for the proposed extensions to the Hamilton Technical School.
“The lowest tender was so much in excess of a realistic estimate of the cost of the job that the Government could not authorise its acceptance,” Mr Tennent said. He said he had personally inspected the school a few weeks ago and had satisfied himself that the work should be put in hand at the earliest possible date. But the Government would be falling in its duty to the people of New Zealand, who had to provide the money to pay for school buildings, if it authorised work to proceed at costs which could not be justified, the Minister said.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29510, 11 May 1961, Page 4
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