THE STORES CONTRACT.
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WE/jUNGTO#, October 23 The Public Accounts Committee on the stores contract find that there has been some carelessness and looseness on the-part of tbe contractors iu connection with the delivery of goods under the contract, and for these irregularities the Committee consider the manager and servants of the contractors are responsible; but there is no evidence of fraud on the part of the contractors.
In connection with the supply of tents — an instance brought before the Committee, in which very inferior tents were supplied in lieu of the tents according to the sample ordered by the Government—ihe Committee recommend that a more efficient system of check be established by the Government.
During the course of the investigation it came to the knowledge of the Committee that the managing partner in Wellingtan of Briscoe, Macneil, and Co. had been accepted by the Government as bondsman for the proper carrying out of their contract. The Committee think that this is wrong, and that a bondsman should have no interest as a partner in any contiact with the Government, ~, . „ .....
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Evening Star, Issue 9832, 22 October 1895, Page 3
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183THE STORES CONTRACT. Evening Star, Issue 9832, 22 October 1895, Page 3
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