CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2997, 7 September 1888, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

The Complaint of a Tenderer.

TO THE EDITOR, -v Sir,—Kindly permit me as one ol the tenderers for tbe:house_ to be built at Manaia to: make '& f?W-' re ' marks upon Mr Eowlatt : taking the wk intohisownhaMsand'executing

it.by day labor. when-the,.'contract; ia. completei publish a soheduleof the'ekpenditui

so that the public, and -builders may reap the;, benefit/of hisTsuperior. knowledge, 'lthink,MrEditor,that the public should; know something of the- proceedings of Air Eowlatt, "in. connection with this contract; Tenders were called ;to Jolose:at : .noon"on Saturday, Istinst.,tbbe accompanied with a marked:''Chequedof JEIS as deposit, The tenders and", deposits were duly received and: the tenderers told that to be opened until Tuesday, \ffi'e'4th.'inst; In the meantime,^ I presume; for tlie carrying out of ; this great .demonstration scheme, Mr Bowjatt attends the sale of a bankrupt's stock of .timber and makes a purchased the greater portion of it..: If the invitation. to tender, was genuine, .why was the timber purchased to build this house before the tenders were, opened. Would not the inference rather be 1 that Mr Eowlatt did not intend any

tender to be accepted. -Had one of the tenderers made an error and tendered below the architects: estimate would the deposit have been returned or would the deposit have been forfeited if persuasion could not induce the unfortunate one to take up the contract although the contractor knew that it would be a losing one. —I am, ic, '

One of the Tenderers,