BUILDING CONTRACTS.
Opposition To Present State Policy. Press Association —Copyright. Timaru, To-day. “That this conference views with concern the apparently alarming increase in building costs as revealed in the Government’s housing scheme, and is of the opinion that the system of tendering with one master schedule controlling prices of every individual article in each of 385 separate bills of quantities for recent contracts, has been largely conducive to this increase; together with the elimination of competitive tendering from working home-builders, due to the fact that groups of 20 houses in each contract were beyond the capital resources of those buildings; in the interests of the public and the building industry, this conference urges on the Government the desirability of reducing the size of contracts to the maximum of five houses in each and the abolition of the master schedule.” These resolutions were adopted by the conference and the Federation of Builders and Contractors in Timaru to-day.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 369, 25 February 1937, Page 4
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156BUILDING CONTRACTS. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 369, 25 February 1937, Page 4
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