MILITARY HUT SCANDAL
THE COMMISSION'S REPORT.
(AOSTmiAJUOW ZSALAND CABLI ASSOCIATION.)
(Received April 17, 1 p.m.)
' LONDON, 16th April. The report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Jackson contract'for military huts states that the first offer made by Sir John Jackson's firm was bona fide, and made from patriotic motives, but an agreement arranged at a critical time provided for excessive payments.' An independent tribunal would probably have awarded much less than £150,700.
[Sir John Jackson, Limited, a large contracting firm, made, an offer to Lord Kitchener to erect Army huts without profit in August, 1914. The War Office accepted the. offer. Later Jackson's requested 5 per cent, commission upon additional -work. The contract finally amounted to £3,250,000, on which the firm's commission was £170,000. The Public Accounts Committee was highly critical ov<jt this arrangement, one member suggesting tfiat n was a bogus offer to do something for nothing in order to secure Jackson's firm from competition later.}
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 91, 17 April 1917, Page 8
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