OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL, WE HELP OURSELVES AND FRIENDS. -Ministers' passim.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5427, 19 August 1878, Page 2

OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL, WE HELP OURSELVES AND FRIENDS. -Ministers' passim.

TO THE EDITOU OP THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Silt, —Considerable discussion has evidently taken place on the subject of Government advertisements being given only to papers supporting the present Government’s policy, but no. reference appears to have been made as to supervising the length of time advertisements are to be inserted. I enclose you an advertisement stating tenders will shortly be called for the manufacture of six hundred railway waggons, &c. This advertisement has appeared daily in the Lyttelton Times since the 4th February till to-day (16th August) notwithstanding the fact that the tenders have actually been called for and accepted months ago. If advertisements are permitted to remain in the newspayers for months and months after the business they refer to is completed, it is not to be wondered that the money spent in advertisements is something startling. If you insert this it may give some enquiring member an opportunity of asking the Government whose duty it is to look after such matters.—l am, &c , Taxpayer. Christchurch, August 16. “ New Zealand Railways.—Tenders for rolling stock.—Preliminary notice.—Tenders will shortly be called for the manufacture of six hundred railway waggons, similar to those now in use on the New Zealand railways, including all iron and wood work.—By command.—John Carruthers, Engineer-in-Chief.—Public Works Office, Dunedin, 4th February, 1878.”