£9770 Contract Let To Councillor’s Firm

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30127, 10 May 1963, Page 12

£9770 Contract Let To Councillor’s Firm

(New Zealana Press Association)

INVERCARGILL, May 9. A substantial Invercargill City Council contract has been awarded to a company in which a councillor is a principal Some much smaller contracts have. in recent years, gone to businesses in which councillors have interests. but none was as large as that for which Audit Department approval was received today The tenderer was C. H. Faul and Company, Ltd., of which the Deputy-Mayor (Cr C H Faul) is a principal The company’s tender of £9770 was for the heating system to be installed in the new library in Don street It was the lowest of three tenders There was a difference of only £420 between the lowest and the highest. In a letter to the Mayor (Mr N L Watson) the Audit Department said approval of the council's acceptance was

given in view of a council statement that the tender of Faul and Company was the lowest and that the council excluding Cr. Faul. was unanimous in its acceptance Cr. Faul left a recent special council meeting held to discuss tenders for work on the Don street building. The Audit Department has told Mr Watson that Cr. Faul should continue to refrain from taking part m any future council discussion about the heating