Contractors On Public Works May Engage Other Work

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 79, 21 December 1949, Page 6

Contractors On Public Works May Engage Other Work

In response to a request from the Bay of Plenty Sub-Province of Auckland Federated Farmers, the No. 1 Transport Licensing Authority has indicated that it will lend a sympathetic hearing to any request from vehicles, operating under a Public Works contract to be made available for similar work when not needed under the conThe chairman, Mr R. W. Dunning, Otakiri, asked how long the application would take to go through the authprity, From the wording of the reply from the authority it appeared that the grant would be automatic, replied the secretary, Mr J. Schofield. He pointed out, however, that the letter indicated that any application for permission to do the additional work would have to come from the carriers themselves and that any farmer desiring to have cartage done by these men would have to approach the carriers.

PINNACLE OF GREATNESS An English boy and an American boy were talking about their grandfathers. English boy: “My grandfather was a great man. Queen Victoria touched him on the shoulder with a sword and made him a Knight.” American boy: “That’s nothing. An Indian hit my grandfather on the head with a tomahawk and made hiin an angel.”