EXHIBITION PROJECT

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 58, 10 March 1938, Page 10

EXHIBITION PROJECT

THE CENTENNIAL

JOINT TENDER ACCEPTED

At a special meeting of directors of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition Company, Ltd., held yesterday, the joint tender of the Fletcher Construction Company, of Auckland and Wellington, and the Love Construction Company, of Dunedin, for the first building contract was accepted. This contract includes the six exhibit blocks

and the fencing,

It is understood that an immediate start is to be_ made with the buildings. Three or four weeks was^the period mentioned to a "Post" reporter within which the work will be commenced.

Separate tenders will be called at a later date fcr the Festival Hall, connecting the exhibit blocks and the administrative block of buildings.

A report from Dunedin states that the cost of the first series of buildings will be about £150,000, but it was announced today in a statement issued from the office of the Centennial Exhibition Co., Ltd., in Wellington, that thin price is incorrect. The contract price has not been divulged, a decision to withhold the figure having been made by the directors of the company. A point o£ some interest about .the contract which has just been let is that the architect for the Centennial Exhibition, Mr. Edmund Anscombe, of Wellington, the manager, Mr. C. P. Hainsworth, the contractors, and also -Mr. Charles Todd. of Wellington, one of the directors of the company, were associated with the Dunedin and South Seas Exhibition of 1925-26 in similar capacities. . ... .