BUILDERS’ CONFERENCE.
Per Press Association.
CHRISTCHURCH, January 28,
A coherence of the Master Builders’ Association was opened here this morning to consider matters affecting the interests of tffe trade. At the Builders’ Conference this afternoon it was decided that the council take into a uniform set of conditions of contract for the whole colony, ana the letting of Government contracts under the same conditions as private contracts; that the Conference represent to the Government the injustice contractors suffer under the Contractors’ and Workmens Lien Act, and that contractors should have the first lien on works contracted for. A motion was passed that notice be given by the different associations to the architects that compensation be paid the lowest tenderer m each case where the work tendered for does not go on. The council was asked to consider the question of taking out quantities, 3 endeavour to bring about the of the system in Australia and elsewhere where quantities are supplied.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3003, 29 January 1901, Page 4
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