HOSPITAL BUILDINGS
LTo the Editor] Sir, —How interesting it is to note that the Mayor has protested most emphatically against the costs of the Hospital’s needed buildings. Isn’t the Mayor about three years too late in his protest? What about the fancy outside brick walls at the laundry block which cost £26,000 plus ten per cent, fee, namely £2.600? If the Public Works Department had designed same, with plain reinforced concrete walls the price would probably have been in the vicinity of £IB,OOO to £20,000, and the Public Works fees would have cost about £6OO. As soon as the Public Works Department designs buildings and also supervises them the old gag is raised “costs and further costs.” It is about time the Public Works Department supervised all the Hospital buildings. Now, will the Mayor take up the cudgels for same? That is what the Department is intended for.—l am, etc.. “BE PRACTICAL.” Nelson, sth April.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 7 April 1945, Page 3
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