WAR CHARGES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 147, 22 June 1915, Page 7

WAR CHARGES.

At la-st night's meeting of the Onehungn Borough Council a letter was read from Mr T. F. Martin, of Wellington, secretary of the Municipal Association of New Zealand, giving the results of hie inquiries from several city and borough councils as to what course they had pursued in respect of claims by contractors for concessions in re&pect of extra charges for freight, insurance, etc.. caused by the war on contracts lot before the war. These replies showed: (1) That con- , tracts for supplies for current year had , been based on increased rates owing to j tin- war; (2) one borough granted exr tension of time, but declined to , pay . extra w;ir freights or insurance; an- . other city council paid extra insurance, ] but no extra freight. Tn the matter of a annual supplies, one city council paid , their contractor the increase in price t paiil by him for the article. In some t cases the city councils paid a portion of the excess freight charges, and another t allowed the full amount. (.1) One 3 borough council agreed to review the s position when the contract was corns pleted. - J The letter was referred to committee -I for consideration, together with one. from - the contractor for supplying hardware c goods to the Council, in which he asked •- for some relief on bis contract. owiDg to the increased cost of material.