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11th June 1910.
Hon.....
Dear Sir,
W. Chatham, 0.M.G.
I shall feel obliged if you will kindly give instruc-
tions to the Treasury to pay me $5,000 referred to in Ir.
Fisher's letter dated 18th April 1910. I have written to him
on the 6th instant and again reminded him on the 9th June but
up to the time of writing I have not received the promised
payment. The money is very urgently wanted as to-day being the
great Chinese festival and my men are all clamauring for settle-
ment of their accounta. I trust you will kindly see your way
of assisting me for you are quite aware of the heavy loss which
I sustained in connection with the building of the New Law
Courts. In the first place it is customary for local contract-
ore to make one tender for any signle building but in my case
I a cepted the work under separate contracts. I thought the
punching down of grabite is separate from the granite work
like plastering is apart from brickwork. As I made no provi-
sion in thepunohing down of granite I sustained the heavy loss
of almost $20,000 (Twenty thousand dollars) to the sub-contrac-
tor for doing this work to the Government without obtaining any
nayment. As it is necessary to pay daily the men for this
punching down business you will observe the extreme difficulty
for me to roceed on with the work without sufficient funds
in hand to meet contingencies unprovided for in my original
calculations.
I have an immense lot of of over size granite whi ch
means additional loss to me, I trust you willkindly see that
it is possible for the Government to indemnify me for the great
outlay which was not included in my tenders.
The statue of Justice and other granite figures were exe-
cuted in more elaborate styles than required in the plans and
I lost a good deal of money in these works. I hope you will
grant some compensation for same, beyond the amounts allowed