CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1159, 26 September 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents].

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Will you allow me to ask through the medium of your columns how and why it is that the contracts for the Ormond-Opotiki bridle track are so unfairly dealt with by I Government officials’ I am an intending contractor residing at Ormond. Tlie advertisements respecting the tenders appears in I tlie evening papers of Friday, Sept. 22nd, ■ which I do not, and cannot, get hold of i until the 23rd, which is Saturday, and the tenders close on Monday, 25th, at noon ; thus leaving me unable to visit tlie scene and to tender for the work or any portion of it. It appears to me that there is a combination of Government officials and others who reserve entirely to themselves all that is to be made out of these roads. Such lias been the case, I can testify, for when having a contract for tlie Motu-Opotiki road 1 applied to tiie surveyor in charge for my money, and I was informed that there was noun, but that if I liked to go into town I oould get it advanced to me, less 16 per cent, I think it Is high time that the attention of the Government should be called to these matters, and that all these roads should, to prevent collusion, be placed under the control of tlie Cook County Council. It is absolutely necessary all these money-making games out of the pockets of working men by Government officials was put a stop to, and I appeal to you, sir, to use your utmost influence to that end.—l am, etc., IntEMUIXO CoNTBACITOft,