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FIRM’S TENDER REJECTED Because the tender was four minutes late in coming to hand, the Auckland Transport Board declined to accept the Warren Engineering Company's quotation for some machinery today. The tender was submitted to the board by the chairman, Mr. J. A. C. Allum, who stated he had just received it in a registered letter together with a covering letter, stating that the delay in submission of the tender was due to advice the company had received of an alteration in date for receiving When the board's officials refused to accept the tender four minutes after closing time, the tender had been immediately registered and posted, firm stated. A motion by Mr. Entrican that the tender should be accepted was not seconded, and the board agreed not to receive it.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 710, 9 July 1929, Page 8
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