A Builder's Grievience.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 115, 23 May 1885, Page 8

A Builder's Grievience.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—ln your issue to-night I&d -ML respecting two brick shops ib Kaicamn^ K. ottd- w6? te • Th» ;a»«it«Ss--about which I wish to maki»feirMffi; i Jn the first place, he accuses myeelfS' proprietors of dishonourable Mtitkim ible actions, ilr ConsUbloko^Mlfc ful how he expresses hiin^*MSS respect, and after hoaHnc%ia|M»' say, I think he will see tW.jffijSEK ÜBea are uncalled-for and wij^iiEji 1 have to do with the firm-fSjuWi]), contract, I am not inclined to,ealkib|llr C , but J can cay that the tafawtt opened at the place and hoortpjxjgtoj and in the presence of nine or i&niijri ■ who were tendering, who caw thfeottia cut. Kow about toe ridiiUoiilMliijS^ ho talks of, although £357 boloirJiljS: mated price, but which do^'j^Sfgi ridiculously low when coppaiedSPie tender next above, which is bMm&fo'i • most respectable and truatyptftjfj||ffln in Auckland; Mr C—-'stend^gß&'i i highest but three out of f?a.r^®jii;': I euppo«e had the works b^ett':^jaf^fbi" Constable at his price tenderediiilf^^l' growl " would have been tnniwSi^ii "lordly crow" because Lq;jinUrJuSßted over the tenderers below*himofßflmaiß not tho case; fortunes are' tjifonii^jo easily these times; and had <he ffjtlfl?%fotigated tho case as he talks (if, libloiilJ have thought his time more ptftipii! tta to waste it in penning such »l«tttflsM|u; 1 hen referring to the deposits -'.which In says were cashed by myself) tib'is •together wrong. The builders Wti.M) present had theirs returned,, to jikj there and then, and 'ill fen taken during the aftor^ora-^miH.,,:; three, Mr Constable being1-oiV 6(s|^ . which three I returned by post on the same night, enclosing my own .ob^ot in place of theirs. I did that not bftawtt was any advantage to ffleVito'casfiaf" cheques, but becaufe I vrantedtffjjffiy receipt for return of deppWtSliiMWr •_ that before calling any one wtevfjilM • pickpockets, Mr Constable .slioald felt make sure.his suspicions aw Mrrec^ud not merely write on Buppoation.-l'c|UH Norfolk-street, P&xatj Auckland, May 2lst, ISBS, '•:■'. T:'