1s 4d WAR CONTRACT.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 87, 9 May 1916, Page 2

1s 4d WAR CONTRACT.

| RED TAPE COMEDY. 'I lie Li'iewuer eorraspoiHU'trt of the 'Shoe and Leather Record' writes: "Tin- Government has intimated, through ihe medium of tli.- usual ofTical (J<K'um«iit.. that it i,, willing to receive lenders for 24 emcrv pack. the total valuo of which would bo Is Id. The tender forms are marked 'very urgent,' and firms tendering are warned that inability of the railway companies to carry the .good* will not relieve contractors of responsibility for nondelivery. ''The goods are presumably intended for the Army boot-repairing depots, but in view of the admitted 'urgency' it will, 1 think, strike most business men a& strange that there is not an official connected with this branch of the service possessing sufficient authority to give the office boy 16d, with instructions to go and fetch the goods from the nearest grindery shop. "Up to the time of writing I have not heard which local firm has been fortunate enough to secure thia 'contract.' "