BOROUGH WORK BY CONTRACT.
SUGGESTION BY THE MAYOR. At- themectinglast night of the Bor. ougb Council. Iho Mayor made a suggestion that the street meaning woi at present carried out by the boron/ 1 staff ,should; be carried out by contract. Ho said he would like the Engineer to go into the question and. bring down a report. Then the Council could consider it before framing the estimates. , , ~ .i •„ Cr. Mu mis asked whether this scheme was being carried out m othu to The Mayor replied that he did notthink’so. Personally he would like to see most of the borough work done AV on Id that mean the cut--j-irip* down of tli© staff? 1 Hie Mayor replied that it would. The men who were doing the work at present could take small contracts. He suggested that the work could bcut up into small contracts. . . A resolution was passed authorising the Engineer to prepare a report on tho subject.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4473, 14 February 1917, Page 6
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