More Contracts For Defence Works

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 161, 11 July 1939, Page 7

More Contracts For Defence Works

TOTAL OF NEARLY £215,000

Illustrating the efforts that are being made to improve the defences of New Zealand, 30 contracts have been placed by the Government for work involving nearly £215,000. While most of this money will be spent on Air Force expansion—construction of aerodromes and buildings—a portion of it will be devoted to the Navy and the Army. Tho contracts are announced in the latest issue of the Gazette.

Of this amount over £33,000 will be spent on the new Whcnuapai aerodrome and over £23,000 on the Hobsonvilie air base. In both cases the contracts are for buildings. Successful tenderers are as follow: Whenuapai: Officers’ mess and quarters, £33,177, AY. H. Whittaker and Company, Limited; removal and re-erection Nixon’s cottage, £465, J. R. Simpson, Hobsonvilie: Administration building, £5940, A. G. Grinter; airmen’s dormitory blocks, £5708, Liddle Construction Company, Limited; Stores 1 and 2, interior partitions, £5241, Liddle Construction Company, Limited; stand-by set house and transformer enclosures, £3186, A. G. Grinter; motor transport shed and garages, £1799, Liddle Construction Company, Limited; guard house, £1594, J. R. Simpson. AA T ork in other parts of the Dominion includes construction at Godley Head at a cost of £28,641; ordnance store at tho Burnham military camp, £22,576; officers’ and sergeants’ mess and domitory block at Blenheim aerodrome, £11,457; new headquarters, R.N.V.R. at Dunedin, £8363, and engine test house at AYigram aerodrome £1428.