RE EXHIBITION TENDERS.

NZ Truth, Issue 63, 1 September 1906, Page 8

RE EXHIBITION TENDERS.

TO THE EOITOE.

P '^ir,— i v: >( nb-lilce that an~7pEnglishs . |tt^i'^H'#iidei for "the sugply^'Oftclocks-i ' ■fpr I>th¥'Exhibition1 > th¥' Exhibition has been?.accepted. * (ionsiaef i^' ; that the tenders^wereuad-' .vertised^nbt more = than- eigtofc>days be-' fore they closed, it is ivverywevktenti Tithat the accepted tender -was cut and dried. , ' i

•My object m writing^sstcr'Sirongly^ protest against ' ihis'imtterliaiMlJ? way*o£2 doing business. .Were there- no jlbcalig ;tenderenj •? If *so,. why, their| )time and money^have'-^een wasted I ,^ answering; tenders, . when? *here was* not the remfttesis-cbance^ofi-theic-^tteii-^ ders being; accepted,- eveniil^ey^wereis' ,the lowest. / ,

I also see^thatWMelbourne.^flrin^is»i ito-strHce the medals for. the -Exhibi-i tion., Theire> are* several*ifiaQS»*3mtKew J Zealand wJio could' ihaiie'cloHe itttati work, and probably a> •gpadi<,iteis Jbet- 1 ter ancl otfebper. Seeingr'tfJiasfe'-thisßis as |^.zF;fexhifcriiionwaii i d: -tlie-.tra(aesiiieitt*of? t^dolbtiy will suffer m«sV»slKJ^«d*a% slranp afterwaEds set in^ is« v -ifc\ ; «oti only fair and^jusfc7>f3iat a^fewwprftiie^ crunibs -sbonM Ml-, to*- -Hieir s&ere? when itj*is •poss^We^MKoars^.'efc.. "ENCOURAGE tOC'AIir JNIMJSfHecS , ,Ohrigtcburch:,,^ug.-llV'O6'i