“UP AGAINST IT”
DELAY IN CONTRACT ' “We are up against it as a result of the contractors not finishing the job according to specifications, and that is the reason we were not able to commence operations with the new electric pumping station on October 1, as arranged with the Waitemata Electric Power Board,” reported Mr. E. Aldridge, Mayor, to Devonport Borough Council. The electrical gear contractor agreed to place automatic switches on the switchboard, as agreed and to indemnify the council against loss that may arise as a result of the use of _ cable other tlian specified. In the meantime the council is paying for electric power which it contracted to use from October 1. Several councillors raised the question of holding the contractors Sialble fox this expe"*e.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 168, 6 October 1927, Page 11
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128“UP AGAINST IT” Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 168, 6 October 1927, Page 11
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