CITY LAMPS.
TO THE EDITOR.
Sib,—Seeing the way street lighting has been carried out of late, it seems that the Corporation do not exert themselves very much in respect to this matter. Is it because the Corporation are their own contractors that they can do as they like in respect to the carrying out of this work? If a contractor had the lighting of the city lamps and made the mistakes that the Corpotation are now making, the result would be to fine him according to the specifications or for ft it his deposit. I may mention also that our worthy gas engineer is a little to blame in respect to this work being done under the present system. He made a previous ocoupant of the mayoral chair and all the councillors believe that he could effect them a great saving by a change in the system, bub it turned out a failure, inasmuch as the city lamp-lighting contract is costing far in excess of the tender system, and is not so well carried out. Again, this system is costing more now than when the Corporation took the work over.—l am, etc., „ A Ratepayer. Dunedin, August 20.
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Evening Star, Issue 10399, 21 August 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)
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