“HAVE HAD ENOUGH”

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 144, 14 March 1921, Page 4

“HAVE HAD ENOUGH”

BUILDING COMMITTEE RESIGNS

ADVICE GOES UNHEEDED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, March 13. The Building Advisory Committee of Auckland has resigned in a body, and the members’ resignations have been sent to the Minister by telegram. "We have had enough. We refuse to be puppets any longer. We insist that if we give our valuable time, our recommendations shall be given, at least a courteous hearing." This sums up the attitude of the committee in tho matter.

Referring to the resignation of th* committee, Mr. Spencer, who was chairman, says, inter alia: "On one occasion we had to fight to have a permit granted to a man whose building work was a direct,- improvement to Auckland, and the buildings he contemplated were necessary works. At other times our decisions Mid recommendations were overruled, and now comes the straw that breaks the camel’s back.”

Mr. Spencer went on to relate how the members of the committee had come to a decision that the expensive buildings that wer ebeing erected by the Auckland Racing Club were not necessary. Since these were being constructed without a permit the committee recommended that the Auckland Racing Club, and also all firms supplying it with its building materials, should be prosecuted under the present law. The Board of Trade, instead of following this recommendation, issued, on March 7 a permit for these buildings. On Thursday last the committee paid an official visit of inspection to the racecourse at Ellerslie, and when the metnbers discovered what had been done they naturally came to the conclusion that their services were without value.