BUILDING CONTROL

Evening Star, Issue 23770, 28 December 1940, Page 8

BUILDING CONTROL

EMERGENCY REGULATIONS ISSUED CONSERVATION OF MAH POWER AND MATERIAL [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON. December 27. Emergency regulations failed the Building Emergency Regulations. 19119. Amendment No. 1. have been passed by the Executive Council, requiring that no local authority shall issue a permit for any constructional work which will require the use of more than Ivalf a ton of structural steel or the estimated cost of which building exceeds £2,000 unless the prior contest of the building controller has been obtained. Further, every local authority is required to furnish to the building controller monthly copies of all building permits which have been issued. Making this announcement, the Minister of Supply, Mr Sullivan, said that. conditions in the building trade .-ince the declaration of war had been difficult, and a combination of circumstances in relation to man power as well as the supply of materials had now made it necessary for these regulations. In times of emergency labour and materials should be utilised to the best advantage by the community, Mr Sullivan said, and these regulations had been passed with the idea of co-ordinat-ing private and Government building activity so that the services of the building trade might be utilised to the full.