Mr Leary ‘not architect’

Press, 26 November 1982, Page 6

Mr Leary ‘not architect’

The description of Mr John Leary as an architect was incorrect,... said Mr Miles. Warren, chairman of the Architects Education and Registration Board, yesterday. He was commenting on reports of evidence given.to the Australian Royal Commission into drug trafficking concerning the building of a luxury house in the Bay of Islands for the convicted drug-ring leader, Terence John Clark, now known as . Alexander Sinclair. The commission is sitting in Auckland. The board is a statutory body with responsibility’ to

administer the : registration of architects' .in New Zealand. ' Mr Warren said that Mr Leary was not a registered architect in the terms of the. act, nor was he a member of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, He was not entitled to call himself an architect. Mr Warren said that architects did. not handle their clients’, funds, as reported in this case. ; In the normal professional contract, their responsibility was to certify the payments to be made by clients, who were then expected to make payments to the builders;