A CITY LEASE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1914, Page 8

A CITY LEASE

•Mr. V. Jensen, who recently tendered an equal amount with another tenderer for a city lease, writes to the Editor asking by what right the Mayor discriminated against him. The writer suggests that he was made to suffer " because he committed the heinous crime of being born in Denmark," although he has practised British fair play for the past forty-one years in New Zealand. Replying to the Mayor's reported reason for advocating the acceptance of the other tenderer that that gentleman " was going to occupy the premises himself, and the other tenderer was not," Mr. Jensen writes: " I say deliberately that I wanted those premises for my own business. . ." In conclusion the correspondent thanks Councillors Hindmarsh, Buddie, Luckie, and Hislop " for doing their duty to the city and me," and concludes :—": —" I wish to make it quite clear that I did not communicate with a single councillor either before op after the tenders were sent in, and that I had absolutely not the slightest knowledge of what was going on, neither did I know who the other tenderer was, until I read the report in the Evening Post, and there learned the broad-minded views held by Mr. Luke and Mr. Barber."

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