BUILDING CONTROL

Grey River Argus, 19 March 1941, Page 2

BUILDING CONTROL

DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIALS A passage of Mr J. W. Dawson s presidential address at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Institute of Architects was concerned with the distribution of b”ildin<r materials. “We had, I believe, in the early part of the year ,genuine grounds for com-

plaint in as much as the Government was using an undub' large proportion op the limited supply of,material and architectural assistance fo r building work which ' Was not . immediately necessary,” said Mr Dawson. “There has been set up recently a Building | Control Board whose duty it is to dis- | criminate between essential and non-. essential works and to issue permits

accordingly, and the indications are that it brings about a more equitable distribution. We will have to meet and overcome increasing hardships in the coming year but by comparison with the conditions which are being so courageously endured at the seat of the conflict the greatest ■ sacrifices we will be called upon to make in New- Zealand ’must seem mild.”