NON-ESSENTIAL BUILDING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16795, 20 July 1920, Page 4

NON-ESSENTIAL BUILDING.

MATERIALS BEING USED. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 19. The Board of Trade states that it has reason to believe that some persons engaged in the distribution of cement, bricks, and timber are infringing the regulations recently gazetted for the purposes of preventing the use of such materials for non-essential, building operations. The board will press for the prosecution of such offenders, - who are liable to a lino up to £2OO, or imprisonment up. to three months. Persons particularly affected by these regulations are those who supply direct to building con-n-actors and other users. The responsi-

• ility is on the ultimate supplier ter ascertain whether the materials ordered are to be used for work for which authority has been obtained under the regulations. which apply to all works of which the completed cost- exceeds £20.Local authorities throughout the Dominion have been authorised to issue permits for and;essential farm buildings within their districts, and applications for other kinds of buildings must be alyo lodged with tho local authority, which wilh forward them on through the local inspectors of factories to the Board of Trade for its consideration and decision.