FLEECING THE TAXPAYER.
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STEELE.
Sir, — In your issue of the 20th you-re-ferred to the fact -that the Napier Post Office was surrounded with scaffolding for repairs to commence. Now, sir, there was one most important point about this matter that you had overlooked and that was this: — "That the whole of the scaffolding was imported timber." In view of the fact that the Government is asking the public to support our own industries, so as to make w'ork for our unemployed there is no excuse for using this imported timber for this purpose ; we have millions of f eet of our own. I know that the Government gave the public to understand that they would use New Zealand timber as much as possible, but in view of the above, I can only come to one conclusion and that is that the Government has no control of the wasteful methods of the P.W.D- Can anyone tell me how many of the chimneys that were erected by the P.W.D. in Napier, have been eondemned by the insurance inspectors and had to be rebuilt?— I am. etc-
Rotorua.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 9, 2 September 1931, Page 5
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