CARTAGE CONTRACTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 281, 26 November 1937, Page 14

CARTAGE CONTRACTS.

TO BE INVESTIGATED.

BY AUDIT INSPECTOR.

(By Tnleixrnph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. tn an urgent question addressed to the Minister of Public Works, Mr; Semple, in tiie House of Representatives to-day, Mr. W, .f, Heoiult'iiot (National, Wai- ♦ ~ nrl V* whether there was any ruth in the statement being freely made that the Government had been ;r t ? """i audit inspector to yesiigate certain excessive and imlaments b„i ng m „ Ue in , Prtllin I w " ,k " at Oreymouth !'"• Irt aMegod," said Mr. Broa«lfoot | m .V mental have been made for .vm ! I ,ln ext, ° B " of the total 'y." 1M w " < ' l ' ''""Id have been earned \iZu:r:;z\ •— * I'll.. Minister replied: "I„ the courM ot his ordinary periodical inspection of thn (.ley mouth otllec of tf.e Public V\oiks Department, 1 1... Illl( || t i,, Mpcc . tor I to.'iit.'.l wlin t appeared to be irreguln riiies in payments under n <:crtain cartage contract. The position is not that the Department was forced to send an ami it Inspector, as stated In the lion, member's question. These"uis|V'ctlons are going on all the time, and what appear to tie irregularities in this ease were observed in the usual routine inspection. The matter is at present being looked into by the audit inspector, but his investigation is not jet completed,"