GRIFFITHS TRAGEDY
-' : i RIG BLUNDErTn TENDER. United Press Aa*oeiayiO'n—lly Electric Telegraph—Copyright): !f ; ;J,“| LONDON) September 29. -The “Daily Herald” says:—“Behind the Sir John Norton Griffiths tragedy lies the story of this worldfamous engineer’s fear that miscalculations in connection with the Assuam Dam contract might injure his personal reputation. Sir John Norton Griiths was also distracted by the knowledge that the contract might be taken out of his hands by the Egyptian Government, in which event it was a possibility that he. would he held responsible for the difference of three-hundred thousand sterling his estliiiato and the next highest tender, indhul the engineers,,,of the world were daggered by the smallness of Sir John Norton Griffiths’ tender, it being nearly,, on <■ million ; pounds less than the highest one, which was three millions. After the acceptance of the tender, the .suspicion arose that Sir John had allowed only for ordnary steel on the; work, • whereon -rustless steel was required. During the past week Sii John Norton Griffiths’ 'friends in England had been making desperate efforts to save the situation.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1930, Page 6
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176GRIFFITHS TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1930, Page 6
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