NEW DUNEDIN POST OFFICE
WILL THE WORK PROCEED. \ AUCKLAND BUILDER’S DOUBTS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, August 28. Comment was made to-day by the secretary of the Auckland Builders’ Association, Mr. R. G. Norton, on a Dunedin report that only three Dunedin firms tendered for the post. office, He said that three leading Auckland firms tendered and it was reliably reported in the trade that tenders totalled nine or ten. He regarded the Dunedin report as indicating the possibility that the Government will not proceed with the work. There was no more risk to-day regarding fluctuating prices that at any other time. It was a most advantageous time for securing low prices. The cost of tendering for such a job would be not less than £2OO per tender, and it was a shameful breach of faith if the Government, having involved the contractors and sub-contractors in heavy expense, should decide not to proceed with the work. The Government should not allow any doubt to prevail about its intentions.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1933, Page 6
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