THE NEW CIVIC BLOCK
In a paragraph In "The FosP yesterday the statement was made that certain architects had prepared civic . schemes without charge, and that the City Council later made them the architects for the civic block. It should be made clear that the architects themselves did not seek this work, but were appointed as the result of an offer to the late Sir George Troup, then Mayor, by the New Zealand In-. ♦ stitute of Architects to provide an ad- - visory panel of architects to assist the City Council in .its civic problems. Apart from the original plans pre- . ' • pared at the instigation of the in- • • stitute all the work done-by- these """ ", architects-has been paid: for • accord- v-* ing to the institute's scale of fees. . ' A. „.-'.•■'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 40, 15 August 1942, Page 6
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127THE NEW CIVIC BLOCK Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 40, 15 August 1942, Page 6
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