EARTHQUAKE REPAIRS
100 Men To Be Released For Wellington PRIORITY SCHEDULE Earthquake repair work, some of it extensive in character and cost, will occupy builders for the whole of the present year in AA ellingtou. Hie city engineer, Mr. K. I'l. Luke, has prepared' a schedule of 101 jobs, more or less urgent, for submission to the Commissioner of Defence Construction, Mr. .1. Fletcher, as evidence of the need lor an accession oi labour for this work in Wellington. The allocation of labour, as it becomes available, has been placed in the hands of the Labour Allocation Committee, of which .Mr. Angus, the contractor, is.the chairman. Mr. Luke was advised yesterday that 100 men, tradesmen and labourers, would be made available to Wellington contractors within the next week or two. Hie first lot were to start work today; others would be released from time to time as defence works were completed in different pails of the province. There should be no difficulty about placing these men. as the city engineer has placed the 101 jobs in a priority schedule—-A, 13, C. Those in the A category will be attended to first, if the architects’ plans are ready. It is believed that in the greater number of cases these plans are already prepared, but it is similarly known that there are still instances where the plans for repair or reconstruction have-not yet been completed. Need for Urgent Repairs. Mr. Luke hopes that the maximum amount of labour will be made available as soon as possible, as he is convinced that another shake, as severe as either of the big ones experienced last year, would be disastrous to many alreadyaffected structured in the city. That possibility is behind the urgency with which repairs are being pressed on at the Town Hall, where some of the interior walls are at present weak through the partial demolition which has taken place. So far only one of the new steel reinforced piers has been completed. There are seven on each side of the big had that require similar attention. Mr. Luke stated that good. progress had been made with the rehabilitation of some of the other city properties, lhe last of the concrete work had been completed at King’s Chambers. The new reinforced parapet had now only to be given a coat of plaster. The corporation's property in upper Willis Street was also nearly completed. Other properties now receiving attention were the three-storied building occupied by Dunbar Sloane, on Lambton Quay (next the Midland Hotel (also owned by the city corporation), and the old Technical School, in Wakefield Street. Other jobs put in hand recently include repairs to Kirkcaldie and Stains’ and the D.I.C. warehouses on Lambton Quay, I' owld s, in Manners Street, the Royal Oak Hotel, Cuba Street, Bates’ Building, in Victoria Street, the Mercantile Exchange, m Manners Street, and L. T. Matkins, Ltd.’s building in Cuba Street. the Alhambra Hotel is now out of the builders’ hands, and it will not now be very long before the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel is restored.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 105, 28 January 1943, Page 3
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511EARTHQUAKE REPAIRS Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 105, 28 January 1943, Page 3
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