NEW PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS.
A SI'UKT J'OJJ NEXT SESSION
WELLINGTON, August 25,
In order to ensure that part at least of llic new Parliament 'buildings will be ready ,for., liext session, the Minister of Public Works, who was much heckled 011 the subject during last session, has decided that the greatest uumIjer.ol: men available or employable will be put upon (lie work. What'progress can lie made by I lie time for the next assembly of Parliament can only be decided when the roof is on, and at present some difficulty is being experienced with the large steel girders which ;uc - ljiiin<> made locally, and owing lo their size are beiiig'coustruuted out of doors, where persistent rain interrupts operations. Once these are in position rapid progress can be made, aiui an estimate can be made as to the, time of completing the interior for use,
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North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13657, 28 August 1916, Page 4
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143NEW PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS. North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13657, 28 August 1916, Page 4
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