LETTING CONTRACTS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE AKAROA MAIL. Sir, —I noticed in your report of the Akaroa and Wainui Eoad Board's last meeting, that the rubble breast-wall, Robinson's Bay, had been let to O'Grady and party, and that Gunning and Go's, had also been considered. Now, Sir, it strikes me very forcibly that if this sagacious Road Board had by a mere fluke given double the worth of this job to Gunning and Co., they had been bound in hpnour to fulfil their part of the agreement. The Borough Council of Akaroa recently made a slight mistake in letting beach wall contract to this same party, and when requested to make a slight alteration, they would not bend one iota from the terms of their contract, unless an exorbitant price were paid. If such a loose and unprincipled system of letting contracts at a price at one meeting, and at the next, aril owing that the contractor had made a mistake, is to become the rule, the Eoad Board may as well publish their estimate first, and call for tenders afterwards. I am, &c, OLD CONTRACTOR. Eobinson's Bay, 15th March, 1877.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 69, 16 March 1877, Page 3
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192LETTING CONTRACTS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 69, 16 March 1877, Page 3
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