PROVISION BEING MADE IN BY-LAWS

Southland Times, Issue 24056, 21 February 1940, Page 9

PROVISION BEING MADE IN BY-LAWS

(United Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 20. It was reported at today’s annual meeting of the council of the New Zealand Institute of Architects that increasing numbers of local bodies throughout the Dominion were making provision in their by-laws that plans and specifications for buildings of a value in excess of a certain sum must be prepared by a registered architect or engineer. In Christchurch the figure was £4OOO or more, but in Auckland city it was £2OOO or more. In some boroughs the figures were lower, particularly Newmarket, where the by-law applied to buildings of £BOO or more. The council discussed the question of the admission of aliens to membership of the institute, and it was resolved that the council should not consider applications of aliens until such time as they had been granted naturalization as British subjects and had passed the necessary examinations. The members of the council were heartily welcomed to Wellington by the Deputy-Mayor (Mr Martin Luckie), who declared that New Zealanders had good cause to be proud of the excellent work of their architects, who were maintaining a very high standard.