WAITEMATA POWER BOARD AFFAIRS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 163, 12 July 1928, Page 6

WAITEMATA POWER BOARD AFFAIRS.

In a stav n\ert to th? Pr»?« respecting event i at the Wa ; r pi-tat a Kic-Tric Power Board meet :iii! id-t Monday. Mr. Hayden ma-de no r'-ferem-e ivhfct-:-v;r to the qne-tk.E at iwy ; that "3r. «ik:L.-r t-r rot "tend-;rs" to the ;.".iard Ibe optr f -d in the pre-enee of the n h"ie 01 the *kj>. or. a- hf.= ";»:-en the practice. hv jj-n -eh and trse crr.:i«r. Thit question La- :aj>M .--verai times. and alter tee ipc»«K-j;t at Monday'?, rreetinr a unanimous was c"T: e to that in futnr® the -••ah of a;: tender? for iroods amounting JD value to over ~'-50 1-e only at the ooard meeting. Pe-pe-.tinjr c:it; either to the «" iiairniSn. me 22.- j r, r ox p'jn'iic this practice should be discouraged in every possible manner, and do <"'lje snouid be i>ermitted to accept under any circuTr stances a iritt from any r-erfon or firm -.rh--. does business w ":th. or seeks To dn business vrjth. such local body. Pe.-t-e-ciinr Mr. Hayden'« ititicisin of my action at Monday"* moctirr. hi? statements are not correct. aud iiif attempt to 1»e funnv > to too ?iliy to anv litre OT-=r ]t. The time i- much more recent than years ai'o. the relationship storv is not correct, and even ha-d the donors "t*een relations, had just received a substantial order from the l*oard. It has -pleased Mr. Hayden to attemvt a clumsy lac-etiousness over the dis.apt>earai3ce of one of the gift bottles of spirit's" and to insinuate that it may have cone to Devonport. Tho-e who know me vij] dismiss the innuendo as a mere stupidity. But i ; it not remarkable that only r.i>e bottle disappeared ?• Mr. Havden to.d the hoard on Monday that the gifts had beer, returned. He must have been referring to the empty bottles. THOMAS LAMOXT.