CO-OPERATION OR CONTRACT?
RIVAL SYSTEMS OF RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, March 14. The Public Works Department is not committed to the policy, of railway construction by co-operative work alone, as the experience on the WestportInangahua railway has demonstrated. Tenders are now being invited for the construction of a number of short lengths of that new, railway and deposits and other conditions have been specially designed to give working contractors a chance to tender. A batch of eight small contracts is in hand, and the work is being properly carried out, and to the satisfaction of the' Government. There has been a somewhat different experience on the Lawrence-. Roxburgh line where a big hill tunnel has' to fie constructed before the rails can be taken further. It was decided to do the work by contract, and tenders were received, but the prices quote' l were so considerably in excess ol the engineers estimates that the Public "Works Department will do the tunnellings itself, all tenders having been declined. The co-operative system of labor will he utilised, for it- has been quite satisfactory In previous tunnel works'.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3169, 15 March 1911, Page 2
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187CO-OPERATION OR CONTRACT? Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3169, 15 March 1911, Page 2
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