MR MORSE AND " PLAYING LOW."

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3199, 24 December 1892, Page 2

MR MORSE AND " PLAYING LOW."

TO Tilli EDITOR. Sir,—Your correspondent writing re the Cambridge standard survey blocks I think has succeeded in nothing, except in making an abortive attempt to throw mud at the five tr.enibers of the Council who voted for the payment to Mitchell of tlio t'l 1.7s fid for the extras referred to ; and, more particularly, to three of that number. Now I feel sore the party who wrote the letter for Mr Morse could have given the reason why they so voted had ho chosen to do so One reason why the five, or the particular three referred to, did so vote is this ; when Mr Mit-.'hi'll's tmder was accepted by the Council ho was allowed in the conditions ~f the contract, one month to get the blocks ready for removal —i.e. one month to let them dry and harden, but as the Council (or ratepayer*) were only to pay the smaller half of the cost, and the Government the larger half, they (the Council) had to await an answer from Mr Mueller, That gentleman was absent from Auckland for about three weeks, I think, and although Mr Mitchell's tender was accepted by the Council, he was kept waiting, until Mr Mueller's answer came, which we (the five) think was very unfair to the contractor—in fact the Council broke the.contract, and Mr Mitchell might have, made fresh arrangements, or, in other words, charged more,and r think the ratepayers are very fortunate Mr Morse had not the same opportunity. Your correspondent thinks that the two publicans could enlighten the ratepayers as to where the money is deposited. If they cannot. I can I Thus" An extra quarter of a ton of cement and a man's wages ; whereas if Mitchell had received the month's grace referred to above, he could have dispensed with both, as he could have made the blocks himself and not have required to use more cement than the quantity which he calculated upon when making out his tender, which would have been snfticiont had the spirit of the contract been adhered to. 15ut supposing Mr Morse's tender had been accepted, the ratepayers—whose interests he (or his promptor) seem to consider so much —would have had to have paid £1 17s (id more than the blocks now cost them after paying Mitchell his extras. What then I about picking the ratepayers' pockets! | Now for Cr. Kirkwood ! What has he gone and done? Actually allowed Mitchell to take gravel out of the back yard, for love. In this your correspondent is quite rifilit ; and when I say such is tlio case I think even he will believe me ; and although he (Mitchell) inado them at the back of my house. I never heard a word from him or anyone else ab mt this extra until it came before the Council. But Mitchell is a sTii MtsHT man and not like the "Jack-of-all-ti'.ides " who was working for me in my back yard s'jine time ago.— Y.mrs, etc., 11. Kirkwood.