A "NARK" WANTED

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 76, 31 March 1931, Page 8

A "NARK" WANTED

MR. DUNCAN OFFERS

TO NOSE INTO EVERYTHING

"We have got to have a 'nark,' " said Mr. W^ Duncan, a candidate for the City Council addressing the meeting of the Wellington Eatepayers 1 Association last., night, "and if elected I am going to be one of those 'harks.' "

Doubtful if city councillors knew who spent the public money, Mr. Duncan attacked the purchasing.-department of the city.. Did the council know what that department purchased? Ho nnderstood that the purchaser had been a clerk in thfe City Councils service all his life. How could he know the diflorence between brass and muntz metal?

•'lt seems to me that every foreman carpenter has a motor-car," lie said. "You sco a/ job with a foreman, and five men there. The foreman'does nothing, but presently along conies the, real foreman ia a molor-car. If he cannot drive a car ho has a chauffeur. These "are all things we should be able to save inonoy on. Who is responsible for this muddle we are in now? They all admit it but none of them will take it on themselves. What we want is a city 'manager. Take the Harbour Board. Wo have brought the muddle on ourselves By letting it go on from year to year." " Tenders < should be called for every job exceeding £100.1 know of a job in , Hawker street that took seven weeks or so to do. The men .did nothing for two whole days'becauso the shingle did not , come to hand. Wo can save money on I these things, but if, we take what they tell us we are not going to save money. iWhat we want is a 'nark.' Wo have igot to have a 'nark;' If'elected I am ! going to be one of these 'narks, 5 and 'nose into everything." .