§ Sir B. FALLEasked the First Commissioner of Works if he will give directions 549W that the inside decoration and painting of all Government buildings should take place during the winter months; and if he will endeavour to have this carried out in all cases?
§ Sir J. BAIRDThe suggestion that all internal painting and decoration of Government buildings should be executed during the winter months is not considered feasible. Apart from the fact that a better standard of work is attained during the dry summer months, occupational conditions in the majority of cases render it necessary to spread large programmes of work on a building over periods of lowest Departmental pressure, and the programme for the current financial year has already been to a large extent completed.