CONTRACT VERSUS DAY LABOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 102, 2 May 1930, Page 6

CONTRACT VERSUS DAY LABOUR.

Nearly all the local bodies with the excep.tion of our own council call public tenders for their works. The Momit Roskill Town Board's experience is well worth quoting as an example of what a local body can save by calling tenders. It has let by contract the whole of its sewerage works, estimated to cost £60,000, for £43,740. This will enable the ratepayers to get other important \7orks for public service clone for the balance of the loan moneys. The City Council calls tendars annually for transport, materials and sundry small matters, but with the exception of the' Mount Eden reservoir contract let twelve months ago I know of no other work which has been let by the council. The reservoir contract was let for some £3000 under the engineer's estimate, which is quite a considerable amount, and surely is worth while saving. The Auckland Harbour Board, the Auckland Hospital Board and all the local bodies around Auckland invariably do all their loan proposal works by contract and effect considerably saving by doing eo. RATEPAYER.