WAIPA COUNTY WORKS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2007, 19 May 1885, Page 2

WAIPA COUNTY WORKS.

to jhk union. Sin, — On the sth n\-i 1 viote tj v<un valuable paper st ituig tint cntaiii plans, &c, ■weienot on view at Mr Howitt'-, at Cambudge, .is acheitis -ii, .iml I now see th.it at the last mooting of the council, the engineer htntrd th.it the plans \\eie at Mr Hewitt's tlnoe day-, after the tune. 1 beg to h.iy that they weie not on mow for nix days. They weie sent t<> Mi Hew lit won Sunday, the 3id of May, and coiihenuently uot available until the Monday luoining, si\. full days after datr. I was prevented from tendering owing to this delay, and I may as well now say that -<[>eciiicationB being on view at Ohiuipo, at the councd chamber. I*,1 *, for W»u)a works, suit few, if any, contractors. I would also draw attention to the ad\ ertißement foi tenders for duiiuage works at Alexandra, m which it was not stated at all where planx or specifications were to bo seen. Badly ax things went under the last engineering management, they seem to bo now far and away worse, the result being that contractors do not care to trouble about tendenng at all.— l am, &c, A Pook Contractor. Hamilton, 18th May, lgSo.