A DISGRACEFUL LOT.
Sir, —Having noticed in your columns an advertisement calling for " tenders for the assessment of the city," after making sundry inquiries as to the nature of the work, and learning the unsatisfactory manner in which it has hitherto been carried out, I concluded that for the sum of £B7 10s. I would, with the assistant I had engaged, have been able to present to the Council a more satisfactory assessment than had hitherto been done, but having failed to buttonhole Councillors or curry favor with them, my tender, being next to tho lowest, was not accepted, after the one under me had been rejected. To quote the words of the old clothes vendor, I must say they are a "disgraceful lot." In conclusion, I must say that Councillor Moss's words would have been more appropriately applied had they been addressed, with one or two exceptions, to that august body, the City Council, instead of the unfortunate tenderers for the city assessment.—l am, &c. Onb op the " Disgraceful Lot." [ln reference to this letter and some remarks made at yesterday's sitting of the Council, we may say our report was quite correct. Ed. N.Z. Times.]
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4523, 18 September 1875, Page 2
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197A DISGRACEFUL LOT. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4523, 18 September 1875, Page 2
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