WORK STOPPED ON LUXURY HOME
THREE TIMES SIZE PERMITTED EY RE G-UL ATION S Received. Monday, 10.50 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 10. Building Union officials today wlthdrew tReir men from a luxury home being built at Northbridge, a North Shore suburb, and refused to allow the men to start on another. The president of the Building Workers' Industrial Union (Mr. E. W. Bulmer) claimed that the home, which was being built for a welFknown racehorse owner, was about three times the size permitted by the regulations. The executive director of the Building Industry Congress (Mr. D. Stewart Fraser) claimed today that the bricks used on work at the Rosehill racecourse which was banned by the union for similar reasons came from the State brickworks. The Minister of Labour and Housing (Mr. Hamilton Knight) said today that the Departmenti was considering the prosecution of the Sydney Turf Club for disregarding the terms of the building contract issued by the Department.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 February 1947, Page 5
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