MA HOEY’S TENDER.
To the Editor of the Cromwell Argus. Sir,—On reading your paper last week, 1 was glad to see Ma lloey exposing the manner in which the Councillors appeared to treat tenders for public works lu this town. I agree with Ma Hocy that the lowest tenderer should have the work to do, or else why do the Council invite tenderers to compete at all ? To show that it,is necessary for the ratepayers to look out now and again at the doings of the Councillors, I might call your attention to a meeting which took place a week or two before Christmas time, when it was proposed tit accept a tender from Mr Dagg to lay the water pipes for £l4, while' there was one from Mr Brown for £l2 10s. The proposition was not carried, but it shows what some of our Councillors would do if they could. Again, Sir, why did Councillor Pierce not vote upon the tender business ? Surely he wasn’t in a state of fog about it, as ho appears to have been upon the reserves which wore to be asked from the Government, if your report of the’ meeting was correct I am, Sir, sometimes the highest and sometimes the lowest , TENDERER. Cromwell, March 6, 3874.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 226, 10 March 1874, Page 3
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