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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4020, 25 January 1892, Page 2

Oub local sontempprary affirms (1) that as tar as Mr Hogg fs aware uo contracts have beenletat Bketahuua, (21 that Mr Hogg hud no power toappoint anyone to tbo work, (8) and that the work is being done at the same ralp as is usually paid for contract labour, fipe time back wo gave 1 in detail the precise manner in wfelch work was let, the exact sum paid for jt, and the rate paid for tarnlar work by 10/ja]" Jjpdias," These fltatements jiavfl iio.t j? yfct tjpep: directly challenged by our local contemporary. If they are denied we are prepared to produce evldeupe in support ol them, To say no contrasts huye been let is merely playing with a term, In these new arrangements the word "ganger" is the substitute for contractor, and as we before pointed out the work is given out by a Government officer, We do. not accuse the Member for Masterton of usurping the position of this official. No doubt in his representative capacity he has been consulted by the Minister and has exercised some influence over the arrangements made, He is identified with a novel experiment whicli is proving an utter failure, and which is alienating from him many of his prominent political supporters, Under these oiroum-

stanoes we da not desire to unduly denounce the course tbalhe has taken, but we must insist upon one point and that is the absurdedly high rates which the Government pays for this railway work, We must prntesi, against the flagrant waste of publio money, and we hold that it is positively dishonest on the part of Ministers to fool away the Public Works Fund in the manner they are doing. We affirm that excessive rates are being paid for this railway work and that the' Op'ony is being robbed of large sums of money to purchase popularity for the party now in power,