CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12] — Page 202

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were caked for, the total cost of the milding; ! exclusis & architects' fees, not to exound

$500,000. The pres M. made the total up to about

uns than 3 storeys & $525.000. The wilding abasement.

The accepted tunder inclusist (foundation, odrainage

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the

Ctis had * $500,000 hat ncommended the addition of a starry, question of the extra cost was refered back to the architects who thought it to he $75.000 phus fee $3750 making a total of $603,750.

Sir it. Blake (then [er. ) decided that the best mativals were to be and, & apparently

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woult of this the estimate put forward the architects, exclusist & foundations, was $649,950, which with foundations estimated at $134.000 + extras amounting to $34.000 came to a total of $875,950 exchesis of fees. But the lowest tinder mas $13900 more than the estimate & with fees came

to

This was accepted in 1905

$872000.

The foundations me

completed in Jannay

198

when work on the superstinctive commenced.

Then der M. Sathan wanted a

bringing estimated cost up

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to $930,000

So for $1,040,000 had heen spent up

the 3" fet last to the hilding wasn't finished

claim for $40,500! The contractors put

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(about) for the delays caused [Ex! what got $23.600 for which the S. & S. attoral havd been asked, but not yet pirn.

The Committee which uported

on the matter

in June 1912 found that considering the stylis Cconstruction the total cost was not excessist but they find that there was avoidable delay.

caused by

(1) Detention of wrf plans for 2 years before

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13) Quanels between M. fisher, the Executive

бидней in change, & the Architects Augand the pist & there the D. P.4. says

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were mult withe the question is whether they ni time to admit the recessary changes hung mader: Io maintain that they were

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