WORK SUSPENDED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20035, 6 September 1939, Page 9

WORK SUSPENDED

BIG AUCKLAND BUILDING MEN WANTED FOR DEFENCE (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Work by the contractor, the Williamson Construction Company Limited, on the construction of the eightstorey State building in Jean Batten Place which bad just started, has been suspended temporarily by arrangement with the • Government. This has been done in order that the company may use all its resources in men on urgent defence work undertaken for the Government. It is nearly two months since the contract for the Jean Batten Place building was let, but delay was involved in starting through the necessity to import materials and in other preparations. tain recent experience that I have had than this: That it has taught me, as nothing else could have done, how quick the kindness of the people of this country can be .and how easily political and other differences are extinguished by sympathy and goodwill. “To-night I feel I can say to all of you with a sense of certainty that I have never quite felt before: Thank* you friends for your kindness that you have so generously shown to me. "To my colleagues, who have so loyally in these anxious times carried on the work of the government in my absence, performing, without complaint, my tasks as well as theirs, I express my sincere gratitude and I concur wholeheartedly in every decision they have made for the safety and well-being of the stale."