CHEAP CONTRACTS.
[to the editor]
Sir, —Times are very bad and contracts are taken very low, and contractors —well, their name is legion. But, sir, I do blame our local architects for not having their work done as specified. If a good man takes a job—high or low—and he is known to be able to do it, he is shown no mercy, and he is made to do it. If a “ duffer ” takes a job and does it as well as he can, whether it is done right or wrong the architect passes it. Is that fair, Mr Editor? The brickwork done at the for the house is the worst of its kind. How any architect can pass it puzzles me, and yet the contractor has plenty of money for the job. Why is he not compelled to do it in a proper manner? IE the contractors were made to do their work well there would not be so many in the field. Some of them would be obliged to go to their legitimate work, that is laboring, and I should not be looking for work at a fair price.—l am, Ac., BRICKLAYER.
[Our correspondent must pardon us for eliminating two important words from his very sensible letter. The unsatisfactory state of the law of libel compels us to keep on the safe side.— Editor S.C. Times.]
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2461, 7 February 1881, Page 2
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227CHEAP CONTRACTS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2461, 7 February 1881, Page 2
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