TENDERS FOR WORKS.
LTo the Editor of the Daily Teleguuph.] y lß) —Can you or any of your readers inform me if it is customary for the Education Board when calling for tenders to build a public school in a country district to issue only one set of plans and deposit them eighty or ninety miles from the place where the school is to be built, and this without any intimation of their having done so being given to the residents of the district. I think, Sir, the least they could have done would be to post up a notice at the telegraph office in the district stating where the plans could be seen, and the date when the tenders close. This, Sir, was not done in calling for tenders for the building of a school at Wainui. The consequence is that men residing in the district, who would bave tendered, have been debarred from so doing through their not having heard of the plans being out. The simple fact of men living in the district being able to do the work cheaper than men who live ninety miles away seems to have been quite lost sight of by the Education Board, or the Education Board's architect, or the Education Board's architect's clerk, or some one. —1 am, &c, Local. August 26,1881,
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3172, 29 August 1881, Page 2
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