WAR CONTRACTS
JACKSON COMMISSION'S REPORT. London, April 16. The report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Jackson contract for military huts states that the first offer made ,by Sir John Jackson's, firm was bona fide, and made from patriotic motives, but an agreement arranged at a; critical time provided for excessive payments. An independent tribunal would probably have awarded much less than £150,700.—Au5.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Sir John Jackson, Limited, a large contracting firm, made an offer to Lord 'Kitchener to erect Annv huts without profit in August, :1914. " The War Office accepted the'offer. Later, Jackson's requested 5 per cent, commission upon additional work. Tim contract finally amounted to £3,250,000, on which 'the firm's commission was £170,000. The Public Accounts Committee was highly critical over this arrangement, one member suggesting that it was a. bogus offer to ; do something for nothing id order to secure Jackson's firm fr6m competition later.]
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3056, 18 April 1917, Page 7
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150WAR CONTRACTS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3056, 18 April 1917, Page 7
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