Page 7 Advertisements Column 2

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1380, 5 March 1912, Page 7

Spealcin» at Tpper Unit yo-lerd.iy al I In- cpeniii!? »f (hi« new Town Board nllices, llii' Hon. I!. M'K'enzie sli'iiii»lv comineiided the il.ny labour -ystein 'as against the contract system, in rarryinu out public w. rl;<. A ili-uii',' ar«;iiiiit*iit in favour of this view. lil- remarked, was to be found in tin- building opened dial il;iv, which had hivn erected by ilnv liiljuiip at n saving id' .611)11 nn I lit- ainoiiiil of I lie lowest tender. Mr. Ai'lu'cnnc <jU thai he w .,( a lot of Uanie. a- Minister I'm- I'ublie Wilis, for niirviu- cut wiu-ic liv tlav liilinur iir liv Ihe -v-tein of cooperative lali'.iur. bill that experience had shown that a meal deal ul' money win mi veil (-., the eauntry in this way. ||... iiientiiined .an example in which the Inwt.-t tentbr put in i'ni' the enn-lrurli ;u nf a railwav tunnel was t:M.I!l!!l. The eiii/i----tiNl's'o-liniate ol the ce-l of the workwas .ti».l|:iil. It was decided In carry mi( Ihe work bv .lav labour, and he had no doubt that 'it would be completed lor two or three th u-;iinl pounds lc-s than the ciidnciT's cslim.'ile. This nieanf that a sum of .suiiiPlhins like .Uo.ri'jo would be saved to Ilia laxpnvois a, a rc-tilt of ilnintt the «nrk bv day l-ih-.nr. Thr. same principle applied to other public works throughout (J,iq CQUntrj,