opinion that where the number of
contractors is so
very
limited as it is
it would materially
in this Colony, it would
increase the price of work by
of.
ad
3.
A
a
the creation
corner if the competitions
general
understood in
rule limited.
were
The term contractor as England is not ap-
plicable to the class of
under that term here.
dumpe
Kong
men kuou
A contractor in Song.
is in most cases a man not
general building trades
brought up in general be
having any special knowledge of
the work he undertakes, but one who
ad a
performed by English
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a contractor's foreman
ich works.
bricklayer
bccasionally a carpenter,
oy mason
by trade is forms.
head of a firm of contractors; he_
knows his own trade to some extent.
but practically nothing about, & general & contractor's work. In short the con. practors fired
many
20 much material, so
new, and
the engineers
and
overaers have to set out and generally
arrange
the work in the so called
contractors
yard so far
Kd
the
e job in
hand is concerned.
Under these conditions we
are of opinion that it is not advival?. limit the competition in
6.
successful cook or
boy has acquired
to
and is
fairly well
a little capital, learnt a reasonable
amount of English,
able to understand instructions and
explanations given
him
by the engineers
for overseers, on whom devolve the actual
supervision and the details usually
performed
generally
the case of tendering for public works, but that the report of
of
the Director
Public Works respecting
position and
the pecuniary
general qualifications
of any particular tenderer to perform.
certain