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FUNNY STORIES ABOUT CONTRACTORS.

TO THR EDITOR. Sill,—Councillor Williams enlivened the debate in the Piako Council by telling a funny story of how a,-contractor put in one pipe only at each end of a culvert, the said culvert somehow failing to carry off the water. I also heard a funny story, in the olden times, of a farmer, who had taken up a large piece of country, ; carting out his grass seed and setting his men on to sow it in the standing fern, only waiting a favourable opportunity to burn off the fern, When remonstrated with by liis men, ho said as the fern was burnt the seed would fall into the ashes and germinate. Very strange to say none of that grass seed ever grew. Hope none of these practical men are on the Tauranga job.—l am, etc., Contractor.

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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2801, 26 June 1890, Page 3

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FUNNY STORIES ABOUT CONTRACTORS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2801, 26 June 1890, Page 3

FUNNY STORIES ABOUT CONTRACTORS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2801, 26 June 1890, Page 3

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