BUILDERS' CONDITIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 165, 3 July 1908, Page 2

BUILDERS' CONDITIONS.

wiiumox BoMwa protest,

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wanganui, Tlmrsday. Among tliu contract conditions adopted by tlic architects and builders of the .Dominion is a clause providing that "If an employer does- not accept a tender within thirty days he will pay the lowest tenderer the sum of one quarter per cent, on his tender, such amount not- to he more than 15 guineas, nor Ie SS than one guinea." The Wangiumi Education J card decided recently to strike this clause out of all building contracts in future, and last evening'a deputation from the Wanganm Builders' Union muted on the Hoard and a sked that clause be reinserted. 'J'liev pointed out that they are now debarred from tendering for the Board's work, being bound by the agreement to tender only under the accepted conditions, and they contended that where no tenders were accepted the compensation provided ««» just and reasonable in view of (lie time and trouble spent in making up u" v V ,Jl "' '''""''""' hol the Hoard, ■'■i'l iV ■»"'' '." " 10 Col "' Sl ' ui »'* ifPlv, said the Board had often to wait six months before the Education Department gave co„ Sl .,it to a tender, and could not »sk for consent till tenders were in. He 11 «> complamed ~f , lle k ,.„ 0 lUan . •»s net ween the amount of tender? and the architect's estimate/ If the .Hoard ««e to be mulcted in such a chari.. ,t was tune it took some steps t 0 ~«(•' -, Hs op buildings. The Hoard, hi «, ■ was ,„ a toUlly ail , Vl . ( , nt . on • b„n, < ;. u , llll0 - ve I ,s « 1 " 1 Hs contracts verc bo"" hi e. He concluded by sl ..- ,-, "<-" M-il get a combine of "js.jiii i. on Boards throughout the colony „„.: .... J'-nLi? i "' 1 ' l ,r "P ni '«Ho throw «„■„'. tl, WOrth ° f work I'" 1 ' .""'■ '"' l/lI " ~ ?1 ,l0 ' V t!|, «» it '» time ine .! '"Hbought of dictating to builders.' J « Board resolved t „ , MIV lun011n(s ~„ Wlion w,tl, past contracts which I H l ,c „ fa,HO "'"' t0 writ" to lie Builders' Union explaining the imsi"milling contracts. °