"ALARMING INCREASE"
HOUSING COSTS
RESOLUTIONS BY BUILDERS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) TIMARU, This Day.
The following resolutions . were adopted by the conference of the Federation of Builders and Contractors in Timaru today:— , .
"This conference views with concern the apparently alarming increase in building costs as revealed in the Government's housing scheme and is of opinion that the system of tendering with one master schedule controlling the prices of every-individual article in each of 385 separate bills of quantities for recent contracts has been largely conducive to this increase, together with the elimination of competitive tendering from working home builders due to the fact that groups of twenty houses in each contract were beyond the capital. resources of those builders."
"In the interests of the public and the building industry the conference urges on the Government the desirability of reducing the size of the contracts to a maximum of five houses in each and the abolition of the master schedule." . -.........
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 10
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