ARCHITECTS' PROTEST

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 11 February 1926, Page 7

ARCHITECTS' PROTEST

■■■ — ♦ / „ wdbk m ooNNxcnoir with/ PUBLIC BODIES. " (By T*pt^.) (SpwW to «n» Ewnie* P«t-) V mtrSDIX, Vat Dm*, V Attha architects' eoaf*na*e lAfc Wales (Donedin) atfced th« preattsai what m the position'with regard ta< the proposed memorial to the Gtraw ment protesting against all arehitea* tarsi work in eonneetion with our pohlie schools, eta, being done solely i* the Pnbfie Worke Department ' The president said that a tontathej memorial had been drafted by the Ess> entire Ootmeil and euenlatod M branch**, nuwt ot -mtSA had «ppror«4 of it Ctotarbory, howeret, had «r» ed that the ntattar choald be held or«« tiU apptored at the aanal eoßte«Bai of the eoaaeU, and the Otago braadfi had ate raiMd some objection to it. Mr. Watos urged that fit* mmoriat ought to be completed and sent fo»> ward without delay, and Vx. V. J« Oreeniah (Aaeklaad) strongly Wippmt* ed this riew. Other nemben exitaeis* ed the action of the Health Depazfa. meat in eiraolariaing hospital boardi thronghoot the oosntrj and qsotbu) "ridienloasly km" anshitoeU* fees foe} work done in th* Poblia Works Da* paztment. The president said that in the t3»> enlar referred to hospisal boards west] informed that if the work was done 2* the PnbHe Works Department th« cos* of arehiteetsral aervioes ia oonnoetion with a bmlding eostag £18^30 would be only £121 instead of 6} per eentj on £13^30, the reoogsased anhiteet\[ fee. Vx. Hunt Seagtf fOssistotacitt nored to snbstltsto f» the Oanterbrng branch motion on the agenda papasj "That the proposed SMmorlal to men* bers of Parliament be held over until it has been approved by the aaana| eonferenm of th« eottnefl," tiM foOoiSk ing, "Thai the ExeeotiTe Oonatsil, ha« ing reeeiv«i the reports tram the dtt» ferent braaehes on the BsowrJa], M iastrneted to redraft the au» u4 send it forward at tits earliest oppsqa tonity." ■. ■ .. The prwrideat said that » it was flsJ| wish of the ooafereaee the exeentr»ej would deal with the matter forthwith. Mr. Beagart reeotation was earn*/