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ignorance of the nature of work to be done. I do not know
whether he still holds the same opinion now that he has
seen the tunnel. You can take my word for it that no day
work is employed where it is possible to do the work by
petty contract. The labour employed in the tunnel is daily
labour as well as one or two gangs outside for doing odd
jobs. Some Carpenters and Blacksmiths are also on day work.
There is a certain amount of day work on the Brickfields.
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Everything else is dões by petty contract.
21.
In order to show how impossible and un-
-economical the Public Works Department system would be
for quick Railway Construction I will give an instance
which came under my notice lately. The Honourable Director
of Public Works undertook to lay in a pipe from the catch
water drain to the tunnel works on the North Side of the
hills. In due time I got the bill to pay and noticed an
item in it for the transport of the pipes to the site at
one cent per pound, or $22.40 per ton. I wrote asking if
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this was correct and the standard price as I could get the
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work done for $6.50 per ton.
22.
I received back an answer that as the work
was urgent it was not possible to call for tenders in the
ordinary way. Thus it was not thought worth while or
possible