STEEL FOR BUILDING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23850, 28 December 1940, Page 9

STEEL FOR BUILDING

AUTHORITY OF CONTROLLER CONTRACTS EXCEEDING £2OOO [BT TELEGRAPH PBESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Friday The building emergency regulations, 1939, amendment No. 1, have been passed by the Executive Council. They require that no local authority shall issue a permit for any. constructional work which will require-the use of more than "halt a ton of structural steel or the estimated cost of which building exceeds £"2000, unless , tho precedent consent 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. The Minister of Supply, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, in making the announcement, said that conditions in the building trade since the declaration of war had been difficult, and the combination of circumstances in relation to manpower as well as the supply of materials had now made it necessary for these regulations. In times of emergency, labour and materials should be used to the best advantage of the community, and these regulations had been passed with the idea of co-ordinating private and Government building activity, so that the services of the building trade might be used to the full.