CONTRACTORS AND WORKMEN.
TO THE EDITOR OP THE EVENING POST. Sir — Would you inform n*e what protection the working men could have against the present system of cont'actinsr in Wellington? The City Counoil meet fortnightly, and paß3 money for payment. Sometime previous to the sittinj? of the Connr-il, some of the contractors in this city go to bankers, hotelkeepers, ar.d monev-leriderß, giving thorn an order on the money passed. These orders are put into the secretary's office, and money, wh : ch should go to pay the working men. is handed over to thfse money-lenders. Pioture to yonrself a married man in this city working for five or six
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Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 34, 9 August 1881, Page 3
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