CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6] — Page 76

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-non ed3 Jnaem ji nedv tud,wevod a goibitud rot vino at

naw ti miano a ot Enti eno daaqa of oa to noitsiqmooms

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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estel ent of troqer ein to cyaq esl adð ni moitnetts awarb

arijna aid awoda vino atɗi „beyoique Xrow yab to dnUOZUS

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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