THE TENDERING FOR MR BECK'S STORE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2996, 1 February 1881, Page 2

THE TENDERING FOR MR BECK'S STORE.

[To the Editor of the Dailt TeIeGUAPH.I Sir,—We would feel obliged by your publishing-tho following in your valuable columns. We having been the lowest tenderers for the above work, and the tender of Messrs M'Dougall and Youil having been accepted, we wish here simply, in justice to ourselves and the tendering public, to state the facts of the case, namely, there were six or seven tenders, but all the tenders were rejected as being high, with the exception of ours £540, and that of Messrs M'Dougall and Youill £507. We>ot being in town, Mr Lamb sent tbe plans to us instructing us to go over our figures and meet him at his office at 10 o'clock on Monday (morning, but later in the afternoon we received a note from Mr Lamb enclosing our deposit of £20, stating he had accepted the tender of Messrs M'Dougall Mr Lamb's only explanation to us on Monday morning was that he waß not aware we were in a financial position to finish the work, but had he made enquiry or waited our presence he would have learned otherwise. Now, Sir, we think Councillor McDougall's recent action in the Borough Council is a sufficient explanation of the matter.—We are, &c, T. Robson. A. Wkir. Napier, February Ist, 1881.