PUBLIC FUNDS WASTED
COMPLAINT OVER CIVIC WORKS, MAYOR ASKS FOR DETAILS. (Per' Press Association.—Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Day.: The Wellington Chamber of Com* meree recently passed a resolution calling attention to "the enormous waste of public funds in the past through the carrying out of civia works by day labour, without prior revision of detailed plans, speeifiea* tions and estimates." This evoked a vigorous reply from the Mayor, Mr TF. C. A. Hislop, who wrote to the chamber protesting against unproved allegations' of this nature, and asking for information, He said he knew of no work, with one possible exception, that came under the category of the "*
When the letter, was read at last night's meeting of the council of the chamber, Mr Stronach Paterson said; the resolution did not refer solely to the City Council. If instances were
wanted, it was only necessary to refer to the Northland tunnel.
The president, Mr A. D. Kerr, remarked that Mr Hislop had only been Mayor for two years. A sub-committee was set up to draft a reply, "•••'..,.
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Northern Advocate, 19 July 1933, Page 4
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