The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY, DEC. 8, 1894. BOROUGH CONTRACT.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 139, 8 December 1894, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY, DEC. 8, 1894. BOROUGH CONTRACT.

a In connection with the fact that the Borough Council did not receive any tenders for the work required to be done to the Warwick street bridge, we may at once say that the real reason is not that there are no contractors in the town capable of undertaking . the job, but that those who are here did not tender for it, as the price had :' been "cut too fine," and they would '" not work for nothing, besides running the risk of losing money. Whether Palmerston or Wellington contractors ' will do so remains to be seen, but for so small a job it is a pity, surely, to ' invite laborers from other districts . when we have plenty of men—rate- , payers — who would be glad to get work. This is very short-sighted policy, to say the least of it, and the members f of the Borough Council have not in j this displayed their usual good sense. i 8 BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. k On the subject of the call made by the a. Directors of the Bank of New Zealand on the shareholders, the Standard says : - - There are few who will now seek to deny the necessity for state intervention and - the action taken by the Government last ' session. This latest development proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that assistfl ance was urgently required by the Bank, and those who professed to be so well posted as to see in the legislation of last session " a huge job " should feel, if they ■. have any sense of shame in them, exceed' ingly sorry that they gate utterance to r t such baseless statements. The news of yesterday explains in a manner the extra- - ordinary announcement made by the Melbourne Age with regard to an alleged 3 further guarantee by the colony.