PUBLIC MONOPOLIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 545, 28 June 1909, Page 6

PUBLIC MONOPOLIES.

Sir, —I am pleased, to see in your issue of Saturday "last tliat you are exposing another of those scandals that have done so much to bring discredit upon the present Adiuinistroj' tion.l rofer to. ,tW 'iion-acceptanco !byi.the Governmcut of cartage .tenders. How much longer are tradesmen to bo fooled into tendering for work that they know perfectly well tliey have, no chance' of getting , against" 5 a moro favoured rival? How much longer aro wo to submit to understrappers , in Government officcs? . When will Ministers learri to oonduot' their offices on business lines and koep faith with the public, bo that the public may havo faith in thein? This cartage business that you have Drought to light has boon a well-known injustice for years past.'.' It is>a relic of the Soddon regime, when one favoured firm got a monopoly of a.ll the Government work worth having, and have held it ever siheo, a few sprats being. thrown' to other firms to keep them quiet. Surely the public has a right to expect a,.fair, distribution of public emplojinent. Monopolies should not exist in public expenditure, and you, sir, deservo the tliaaks of the public in bringaig this matter.to light.—l am, etc!,'. , • BEHIND THE SCENES. ' Juno 25. :■