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COMPANY’S OFFER TO BUILD WAR HOSPITALS
(United Press Association)
AUCKLAND, June 13.
An offer by the Fletcher Construction Company Limited to the Government to erect any military camp or hospital during the war at cost price, that is less the customary 7J per cent, profit on which contractors work, was extended to the Auckland Hospital Board and was promptly accepted for the erection of the new infirmary block at Epsom. A few days ago the company telegraphed its offer to the Prime Minister (the Hon. P. Fraser) and received a reply acknowledging it as a patriotic gesture and intimating that the Government would accept it if and when required. “The company’s offer is not only a generous one which will save the board, and hence the public, some thousands of pounds, but it is further evidence of the wonderful patriotic spirit ruling in Auckland at the present time,” said the chairman of the board (Mr Allan J. Moody). The board’s loan authority of £200,000 to cover the cost of the whole block has been approved by the Local Bodies Loan Board.
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Southland Times, Issue 24152, 14 June 1940, Page 4
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185ERECTION AT COST PRICE Southland Times, Issue 24152, 14 June 1940, Page 4
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