BUILDING DIFFICULTIES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 342, 25 January 1937, Page 4

BUILDING DIFFICULTIES

Wet Weather Delays Local Work. The unusually wet December weather has seriously handicapped the work on # the two buildings at present being erected in Stratford. This factor, added to a difficulty ih securing a sufficient number of firstclass carpenters, has in both cases considerably delay; d completion. The Union Chambers, being built by Boon Brothers, next to the Post Office, are expected to be ready for occupation at the beginning of next month, but had conditions been normal the building would have been finished in December.

On the large onetstiore,y building being erected for the Farmers’ Co-op., the contractors have been unable to secure carpenters accustomed to the type of work being done there and for the past month have had six men from Christchurch working on the job. This has involved them in the extra expense of transporting the men and of paying their living expenses while in Stratford, adding considerably to a pay-roll which has, since the commencement of the work, passed well into the thousands.