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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2199, 20 January 1886, Page 2

it would not debarjjie.ft'on] altering that opinion on a closer examination.:, I told ' him what I considered tho usual price for outside painting, l but there ia more than painting on which- to .makJf leductions in over one hundred feet verandah, Williams and Barker' made their reductions on the. items alone, going even more into detail than Wrigiey/jand Rose. On. some former occasion, inhanding me a'tender for, I think,- a very small building, Mr Wrigley informed me ■ he had not had his cheque marked, and I " replied to the effect he states,'but in .thiscase he did not so inform mer On other : occasions his cheque has been marked.' Throughout 'this correspondence -Mr' Wrigley has-.quite forgotten that no tenders having been accepted', he, as .' 1 well as the other tenderers,- were . placed as it were "out of, coiirtj"' and were not in a position to cUini further consideration as a right. As regards the tenders for Mr Payton's house, Mr Cleghorn informed Mr Payton that the banker would not mark his' cheque, but that,he would have the money in by noon, and on that understanding he wag allowed to tender. In handing in his tonder to me ho said tho money was not in the bank, but it would be in .by- 3 o'clock. . I asked him if he would guarantee that, and ho said he would, so I took the tender i it was the lowest. Under the circumstances I considered It neoessary to see whetheror not the.clmque was good, and at or immediately after && o'clock made enquiry at tho Bank, but iipjjP the absenco of the manager could not got the information. In the course of the afternoon the cheque was returned to me marked N. S. F, Mr Payton consequently decided not to accept his tender for a contract considerably, exceeding £7OO, and I doubtless informed Mr Clei?- ' horn that it was not likely Mi Payton would enter into a contract for

such an amount with a contractor who was not able to put in his deposit.'. The 1 ■ statement as to my refusing to say when the cheque was presented is simply fiction. I was not employed or consulted by Mr B. P. Perry with regard to the removal of one of his buildings, so I could not have piado the '.'.ruling" with which I am credited. Contractors are laboring under a delusion in supposing that the architect accepts tenders: the decisions are invariably made by tho employer. lam&c., Geo. Fannin.

(ADVT.) THE BUILDERS' GRIEVANCE.