MIDLAND RAILWAY COMMISSION.
[per tbess association.]
Wellington, April 15. _ To-day the Midland Eailway Commission took the evidence of Mr. S. Brown, of Wellington, who had a sub-contract under one of the English contractors for that portion of the Midland line from the Stillwater side of the Arnold Bridge to the Eecfton side of Nelson Creek. The contract price was £31,521 15s 3d, and all that Brown got out of it was £353, representing the profits of about a year and a half's work, He expressed the opinion that money was spent unnecessarily by the company owing to the supervision being entrusted to a Swede, who failed to recognise the difference between the condition of payment for labor in this colony and his own country. It was intimated that other witnesses were on their way to Wellington for examination, and the Commission then adjourned its open sitting for a day.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 April 1901, Page 4
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149MIDLAND RAILWAY COMMISSION. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 April 1901, Page 4
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