MUNICIPAL MATTERS.
To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail
Sir, —Your reports, so far as I have been able to judge, have been so very accurate that I can haidly doubt that of th# last Borough Council meeting; from which I was unavoidably absent. But is it really true that, when the tenders for new._ bridges were opened, Councillor Meech moved that the highest tender be accepted? Your report etates that "he did not believe in cheap tenders." Was there ever such a ridiculous excuse for attempted misappro- *- priation of public mdney ? How did this particular councillor become so experienced in bridge building that he should thrust himself in the front of all the other councillors with his motion upon the subject TWhen bridges are made of leather, he may pretend to know something about them. Men having the control of public money should beware, for " might not the tial world, with reason, say" that they are actuated by sinister motives when they want to get the highest tenders accepted f they don't understand ?
Yours, &c,
TOES AND HEELS.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 266, 4 February 1879, Page 2
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179MUNICIPAL MATTERS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 266, 4 February 1879, Page 2
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