DAY LABOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 99, 29 April 1938, Page 11

DAY LABOUR.

MOTOR TESTING STATION

TENDER SYSTEM OUTVOTED. When a recommendation by the works committee was before last night's meeting of the Auckland City Council that the erection of the council's motor testing vehicle station in Fiinshawc Street he carried out by day labour, Mr. L. t'oakley moved an amendment that tenders bo called. Thte precipitated a discussion on the question of contract versus day labour, many of the Labour members of the council strenuously supporting the committee's recommendation.

The iron. B. Martin, M.L.C, referred to tlic collapse-of large buil3rn<ss irrthc I'uited States built under" t"he contract .-ystcni. This, brought a "wise-crack" from Mr. A. Kosscr, who said the walls uf ■fericho fell down. When the laughter subsided the discussion was continued until ii vote was taken, the .amendment being lost, only four councillors being in favour of the tender system. The report was then adopted and the city engineer was authorised to order the

nect'ssa ry rnn cli inery

Keporting to the council iji March, the city engineer, Mr. J. Tyler, estimated the ro-t of the work at £J!J4O. This did not embrace the cost of testing apparatus which, he said, had already been purchased ami was in storage.