BUILDERS' FEDERATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81895, 28 November 1906, Page 3

BUILDERS' FEDERATION.

annual meeting. Per Pre§» Association. YVangimi, November 27. The seventh annual meeting of the Builders' Federation was held to-day, and finished its business in the aftcriwon. Mr W. H. Bennett.of Wellington, was elected President and A. <•- B'lgnell, of Wanganui, Vice-President. The n"J(t conference is to be held in JT. •in October neM. It was rcthe conference the Government to grant a subsidy which shall give apprentices, free education at technical schools; that the question of cost of copies of conditions of contract be reviewed; that a spec ial non-political committee be set up by each branch of the Federation to further the adoption of conditions of contract; that the Government be urged to conserve native timbers; that the Government grant builders greater security over) land on which they arc erecting build-1 bp than the law at present provides; that no builder should be asked to tender from a bine print; that the PabUc Works Department be directed to the unfairness ot inviting tender' for worlts a second time without alterations of plans and specifications; that espies of conditions of contract l» (applied to practising architects, provided they do not follow the business of builder; that a levy of 3/6 be made On each member for the ensuing yea/.