DRAINAGE BOARD GORKS.

Evening Star, Issue 14965, 27 August 1912, Page 7

DRAINAGE BOARD GORKS.

TO THE KDITOII. Sir, —I wish to draw the ratepayers' a I tention to the manner the above board carry out their works. While walking past one of their jobs in progress ;it St. Clair Ja<*t week 1 was astonished to s« three gangers walking about d/ing nothing, ami only about. 10 men employed on the works." I inquhed. and was informed that this bad been going on for a very long period. Now, art a- ratepayer, 1 pretest against this soil of way of spending the ratepayers' momy, and would px'fer to see the work carried oat by i-on-tra-rt, which, no doubt, could be don<; more cheaply. Hoping some member of Lho board can explain this sort or me-ihot! of working—l am, etc., llathi'.wi:!'.. August 27. [Then- are 70 men employed on the .St. Clair works, and. being somewhat, scatt.cied. they require adequate, supervision. Though tho gangers do not do pick-and-shovol work, their duties are multifarious, and good gangers, we are informed by the board's officers, save the board their wage? many tjmes over. The board execute wurk both' by contract and day labor, ami their experience of the latter system shows that both economy and 'eiHciency ar." obtained under it.--Ktl. K.S.]