In our last issue we described the circumstances, so far as yet known to the public, under which the origiual terms of the contract for the completion of the Invercargill and Winton .Railway were altered by the Provincial Government, and a fresh arrangement substituted, which haß ended in a payment to the contractors of a sum greater by about one-third than that lor which they originally stipulated to perform the work. It may be that the Executive are able to give satisfactory reasons for this interference with the terms of the contract, and to show that the public good imperatively required the enormous concession which they took upon themselves to grant to the contractors, and
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Southland Times, Issue 1565, 19 April 1872, Page 2
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115Untitled Southland Times, Issue 1565, 19 April 1872, Page 2
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