Is it Tendering, or What ?
[to thi editor.) Sib, —It is only a few days ago that the Harbor Board declined to take into consideration an offer for a supply of metal, purely because the gross amount would exceed £25 -but verily they appear to strain at the proverbial gnat and consume a came) on wholesale principles. Payments are now being made to a contractor for the carting of stone, which, it contracted for a year ago, is certainly, or should not certainly be a contract existent at present, and the lucky recipient of from £l5 to £2O a week is not asked to compete with o'her contractors, but allowed to pursue the even tenor of bis way. Matters at this kind should be attended to by those whose duty it is to conserve the pub ic interests.—We are, <te., ComnaeTOßs. P.S.—We may add that for work in the Blookysrd, occasioning an expenditure of say from £2 10* to £3 a week, it was found to be absolutely necessary by the Board to have tenders advertised for, but in the instance alluded to a laxity occurs which induces the question : Is it tendering, or what t
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 405, 18 January 1890, Page 3
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196Is it Tendering, or What ? Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 405, 18 January 1890, Page 3
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