STATE HOUSING TENDERS
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Auckland Prices "Not All Satisfactory" MR LEE'S COMMENT
(By Telegrapk-
WELLINGTON, This Day. Mr J. " A. Lee, member in charge of State Housing, stated. tenders closed a few days ago for the erection in two contracts of 127 houses on the Casey estate, Auckland. The tenders were not aJl gatisfactory, but, on the other hand, for 15 houses ajb Otahuhu there - had been a splendia response, 28 tenders being received. The prices of the lowest were most fair and reasonable, and he wished to eongratulate the "builders concerned on their practical co-opera-tion. ,4 "The scheme at the Casey estate," he said, ".will be divided into smaller contracts to give those builders who tendered excelient prices for Otahuhu but were unable to obtain . a contract and to give the unsuccessful tenderers a chance to amend their tenders." Mr Lee remarked that the new development of small buildert showing willingness to co-operate was most welcome and bore out the fact that there was room in the scheme for large and small organisations. At the moment, he &pid, there were 25 . different contractors engaged in the construction of State houses.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 159, 23 July 1937, Page 5
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