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the work entailed by the unsatisfactory design of the roof fell upon Mr. C. H. Gale.
8.
In 1909 the contractors complained of being
impeded in their work owing to delay in supplying them with plans
and drawings, and the question was considered as to how far the responsibility for such hindrance could be thrown upon the Architects.
The Government was advised that by reason of
the delay by the Director of Public Works in dealing with the plans for the roof and the radical alteration in the method of construction of the roof, which though the methods proposed to be adopted by the Architects were wasteful of material and unsatis-
-factory for various reasons might have been constructed
substantially in accordance with them, any action at law against
the Architects would not succeed.
It was accordingly proposed to send them the
letter marked C to which you refer, but instead of doing so it
was decided as a result of a conference between the Director of
Public Works, the Crown Solicitor and myself, as Colonial Secretary, to take the work out of the hands of the Architects altogether. A letter, copy enclosed, dated the 30th. of December, 1909, was therefore addressed to them and enclosure E in r.
Fisher's letter to you is the reply of the Architects.
9.
The want of assistance of which Mr. Fisher complains is fully dealt with in Mr. Chatham's minute of 16th. October, 1912, above referred to. Mr. Fisher is under a mis- -apprehension concerning the purport of the report of the Retrenchment Committee upon which I myself sat. I enclose a copy
of paragraph 21 of the report, together with a copy of Colonel Dumbleton's report on the Public Works Department.
The Royal Engineers work on a different system to that adopted in the Public Works Department where Engineers calculate the quantities for buildings for which they are responsible. The Royal Engineers employ & Staff of Civil
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