WARWICK STREET BRIDGE TENDERS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 63, 6 November 1884, Page 2

WARWICK STREET BRIDGE TENDERS.

We are not responsible for the opinion* of dur correspondents.) ' TO THB BDITOB OF THB STAB. Bm, — Kmdly allow me to answer Mr Chamberlain's last effusion." "I p,a»s over the first part of bis letter, withojnt notice) as I tlunk it beneath me, excepting where - he speaks of my blustering at the Council., Please tako notice Mr Chamberlain, that' some of the councillors, and the majority- r of the ratepayers have endorsed my'aci» r tion in the matter. Mr Chamberlain says he %i does not expect an engineerta build the bridge, but as a large ratepayer ._•• he expects it done in a workman-like v : manner. And he does not consider mi. '•" fit to do it." Well Sir, opinions may ~> ' differ, but why, Sir, eonld I not doit.; '■'S Could I not get men to help me to ddthe*W work as well as be did when he built that - hotel in MastertonP Who did that ' work P Not Mr Chamberlain, but the ; men he employed. He sayß that I- earner and asked fora job on the bridge at the Wairarapa. I deny that, firstly, for ik i was arranged between mo and Mr Frances that I should go on. Mr Frances -"• himself came to my house for me. He says I was put to those herringbone J braces as it was an easy job. I did. not want to do them, because I did not thinly - I was qualified, but both Mr Chamber' lain and Mr Frances said go on and tiy. I did some very well, but I got pulled up with one lot. 1 went to Mr Chamberlain (for mind you it was bnt seldom Mr - Frances was on the work), who said I had not marked it right; he marked ona which I cut to his marks, bat it was a worse fit than my own. I got him^^ look at it, he cut at it till it was spoiled, then he swore and left me to myself; He says he went to Mr Frances and told hint to discharge me. Which he did, (its a wonder this part did not choice him) 'for allow me to say that while those pieces of I spoilt timber were lying open to ytew the Engineer proper came up, and I wail fitting another one in, and he said, as^ " though he was speaking to Mr Chamber* ' lain, " That man will spoil more timber in one hour than he will earn wages Hi* day." But Sir, Mr Chamberlain did Aoi. .. say he spoilt the half of it. Ohl Nolo No! And when it came night I told If r - „ Frances I would not do anymore of theni (mark, there had been two at them before . .._ me and left.) Oh I he says, go oa» • JSf^,..^ I said, and instead of being discharged JC .-..;• „ went to help drive piles, and it, was the . last tier. After that was done !f feelped ' plank the bridge, quite half of it, before? I left the work, and should not hare left '•) then, only for the outrageous . manner* ia^i. which Mr Chamberlain conducted himV . self towards me,, and what for Sir?. Simply because I told him he wasasbW ■•;<:■ adnfferas myself, as he had spoilt the lialf of the timber. If Mr Chamberlatii ■•>- - had not exaggerated, to make himielf appear innocent this would not hare been' ~ let out. "As to Mr Trances having to keep his eye always on me, is only a blind ; to make his own case plausible. ,N*ome '[' 1 ever worked for had need to that. I am quite able to do any work there is 'to '.. be done by the Council or Soad J^oerd., J And got complimented for my workl That is worth far more to me than oil - . that Mr Chamberlain can say. I think • Mr W. W. Corpe, of Makino, caft bear me out in this. Good bye Mr" Chamber*. ; lain. This will do, for I shall not take '* any more notice of yon, — I am, Ac, Wiixum Hammokd.