DEFECTIVE SLATES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 59, 3 December 1926, Page 6

DEFECTIVE SLATES

ON CORPO BAT lON-BUILI HOUSES. Tbe slates used on some of the x'or-poration-built douses at Northland ha e oroved to be defective, and from time to time tbe purchasers of ’bese houseswho accepted the City Council s statement that uofliina but the best of ma, tenals was used in the eonstr iction of the houses-have asked the council tor some assistance in puttinp: the right. Last night the City Council received a report from the Fin nice Conimittee in connection with tbe matter which read as follow? t— . “The committee recommend that tne owners make their own arrangements for the re-roofing of these houses wjtb iron, and that the council contribute £25 towards the cost of each house which is at nresent roofed with defective slates, subject to an absolute learance being given the council from any further liability in this connection: the citv engineer to determine which houses require re-roofing, and all the work done in this connection to be parsed by hm» before anv payments are made.” Councillor R. A. Wright said that the slates had been sold to the council by a firm that should have known better. He held that these people had a moral if not a legal right to have their roofs made whole. The clause was passed.