PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS
WORK IS BEING RESUMED. ! Construction work is being resumed oil the new Parliamentary Buildings.The company which is to supply the marblo from the quarries at Sandy. Bay has been reconstructed and fully sub' scribed, and as the new quarry opened up some months ago is reported to give promise of "plenty of gjood marble no further difficulty''is anticipated' regarding supplies of stoiio.: The Minister of Public Works (tho Hon. W. Fraser) has assisted the contractors by building. for them a tram line to the new quarry, and also a small wharf at which scows and steamers may load. This assistance amounts, really, Mr. Fraser explained yesterday, to a loan to the contractors," for they incur liability to the Government for the money expended. 'Die Minister lent them tho money, but tho Public Works Department saw to the expenditure of it. Work on the big building is going on more steadily now. The brick work oil the walls is being resumed, tho concrete flooring of. tho first story having been completed. Tho terms of the contract required this to be done before the walls were raised above tho level of the first floor.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2530, 3 August 1915, Page 6
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194PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2530, 3 August 1915, Page 6
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