COST OF PARLIAMENTARY BUILDINGS.
COMPLETION EXPECTED NEXT JUNE. The handsome buildings which are the home of the New Zealand Legislature had cost, up to November 25, 1921, the sum of £197381. The contract for the building was let on December 12, 1913, and the amount was £151,639. The date for completion was December 12, 1915; The contract did not include the foundations, the supply of bricks, heating, elevators, electric lighting, bronze work, and interior marble, which were either let in separate contracts or carried out by the Public Works Department. The estimated e#st of completing the unfinished portion is £37,000, and the probable time of completion is now fixed as June, 1922. The Public Works Department announces that a considerable additional sum will have to be allowed on the main contract for extra costa due to* xl *e war. A committee has been set up to ascertain exactly what amount of additional cost ba allowad. *
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1922, Page 5
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155COST OF PARLIAMENTARY BUILDINGS. Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1922, Page 5
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