CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5] — Page 335

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Mr. P. Kydo, Overseer of the Pottinger Waterworks

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Used to send in a return every month - generally on the 10th day of the month, and never later than the third of the month, of the work done, so that the Contractor might get paid. I know that he sometimes kept as long as five months out of his advances.

I know that he had to borrow money to pay his men at a rate of 2 per cent per month.

I am quite ignorant as to the delay in making payments.

I wrote more than once to Mr. Moonson saying that A Pak...

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41.0 f 45. Mr. P. Kydo, Overseer of the Pottinger Waterworks 533 Used to send in a return every month - generally on the 10th day of the month, and never later than the third of the month, of the work done, so that the Contractor might get paid. I know that he sometimes kept as long as five months out of his advances. I know that he had to borrow money to pay his men at a rate of 2 per cent per month. I am quite ignorant as to the delay in making payments. I wrote more than once to Mr. Moonson saying that A Pak...
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41.0

f

45.

Mr.P. Kydo, Oversen of the Pos fulmum Waterwatts

533

Qued to send

send in a return

every mouth - generally

et

generally on the 10t day of the march, and never later thaw the third of the mouth, of the work done, so that the Contractor might get paid. I know that he sometimes Kept as long

Wao

no

five months art of his advancen. returns regularly

I made

мир

I know that he had to borrond

money to pay his men at a rate

of 2 per cent porn

I am quite ignorant as to

the delay in making porymento.

I wrote more than once to Mr

Moonson

saying

that A Pak

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