GOVERNMENT BUILDING CONTRACTS.
JFo the Editor .of the Akaroa Mail, ; ,,
Sib,—l observe with very great surprise that a large quantity of old material :ia being introduced into the new Bchool building. I 1. \ When I tendered for the work I supposed that all the necessary timber would have to be found by the contractor. There is nothing in tbe specifications about using old material. Ido not consider it fair to contractors that they should be taken advantage of in this way. Had I known what was actually required, my contract would have been £50 or £60 lower. Either the specifications are very badly made out, or the Board of Education is paying the price of new material for their own old material.. I do not knOw whose business it is to see to the matter, but it is my business as an honest contractor to see that I am not kept out of employment by other people's carelessness or artful dodges. • . - Yours, "&ci ■■■'* CONTRACTOR.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 313, 18 July 1879, Page 2
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164GOVERNMENT BUILDING CONTRACTS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 313, 18 July 1879, Page 2
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