CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4727, 22 May 1894, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

A Contradiction. , s [to the editor w.d, Times.] s Sir, —In youv iesuo of May 17fcL, j j you commonfc upon tlio nttitudo of I the Wellington Typographical So- 1 ciofcy towards tlio tendering system; J and state that" A short time ago a j cftso was submitted to its Secretary ' whore one of its members secured I some printing in Masterton at-a cutit throat price. Proof plain and posi- j it five was given of the work dono and ; the pricj' paid for it, and a reply s was received absolutely declining ■" to inquire into the affair." As this statement is entirely false and also ' those which immediately follow, ( j " Tlio Society is aware that cut- i [. throat work is executed by its own members, and ignores this while it preaches to its customers, telling them wlmt they ought to pay and n what they ought not to pay. Why should the Harbour Board pay (. schedule prices when members of the Wellington Typographical Society execute other orders at half (. schedule prices," and show a pitiable: i t ignorance of tlio functions of a tiademiion 'Society ; for neither the Wellington Typographical Society, nor ' the members thereof, execute work for customers at a price, but leave | 'Jflint to the employers. I trust, in! justice to my Society, you will give I the same publicity to this denial that you have already given to the misstatements referred to. » T linvc^lc., ' W. P. McGirk, Secretary W.T. Society. [We arc surprised at Mr McGirr's; denial, and cannot for one moment accept it. The matter was sub- j ) mitted to the Typographical Society through Mr W. F. lloydltouse, of Greytown. On the • 31st of , January last Mr Boydhouse wrote to us as follows" The Secretary of the Typographical Society rc- i plies that he wants 1 a case stated' 1 before tlio Socioty will go into the B matter atall. I haveropliedasking s him to give me au estimate of the irork outsido any ' case' at all. , 1 Will send result." Upon receipt of this we forwarded a statement of " the case in point, the essential particulars of itlmvingbcen previously ; supplied, and Mr Boydhouse inj. formed us that the Society refused „ to move in the affair.—Ed. W.D.T.I