AUCKLAND MONEY NOT FOR AUCKLAND MEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 720, 6 March 1866, Page 5

AUCKLAND MONEY NOT FOR AUCKLAND MEN.

To the Editor of the New Zealand HisiiaTiD. g lß) —in your issue of Friday, Messrs. "Victory and Masefield express a rogretab coming in contact with mo in the mutter of the swivel of Tamaki bridge. I beg to assure those gentlemen that it h-»s not been my wish to rush into print-, but as they have thought proper to make statements which have led parties to believe that there was some reason besides the one stated—viz., that they were ignorant of the work— they must take the consequences. Messrs. "Vickery and ftlasefield are in error in stating that their price to me was £1200. The prico tliov gave mc was £850, which I am. prepared to prove by a highly respectable gentleman of this town, who well remembers Mr. !Masefield telling him so at the time. But if anything further were required to prove it, it would be in IMr, Cadman's for the work being £800 fixed complete, .andJihey admit he got his price from them. They .are error as to thoir having applied to mc for llie work, or offering me security, a thing I never trqublea myaelf about when I found their price'to low. T append a copy of & letter writton to his Honor the Superintendent shortly, after mjr .getting the contract, at his own request, oh account of a conversution X had with him as to whether X should get my iron work, and in oours& of -which oonrersation his Honor had expressed_Juai regrpt $hftt tho work ooul'i not be iji.tlie province; am prepared .to youcli for' every wor# that, plotter Editor, I wili'.giveyou'ffie'-infijriiktion you requited, The price I'paid.Messrs. P.' IfVUus- ' Bell and 06V,' for the iron, wort, delfteioa on Auckland, wharf, was, £3150 , Butt Ah4eraon c £Bd'for taking it round 'to. the Tamptl,' ljparly $600 for erecting it.' When I.slate thatmy" pi'jpe to theJGo'vorament was MltJO'-' thaj/iiiiiie was ,the7owe»t .'tender' witK" 'the.exception' 'of , M£.~;Oaaisan'», who,' as" before , stated, had." pnoe for the ' ironwork ''from Messrs'.' Yickery and 'Masefieid'? that .its weight,.exclusive of ballasting, is 'iikarly .cmly about l 4 tons'dij which is Ihava ' proved tligit the price' quote'd'wpuld riot buy fh'd raw lnaterial'hy at least '50 ,per cent;,'and' tfiar Missrs. Vickery. arid'Ma'sefield, and 'those parties wp would tiecomd'sccttrity for themj' owe me a debt o' "gratitude which thay ought to have paid in a different tjiknner thaii by mating;.statementa'fe^ correspondence. . . ' i x I am, &c,,. I ' " , HENBY j ''McK , fitl.. ' " PauOTire,' i.. u-»' ?' , QpFy*.,r t. .. ... . AuQkland,,22nd.Ju»c,.AS)> : . . " Sir,- —Before tendering for the Eanmur.e_Bnisge. I • ■ called at Messrs.. Yickeryand.Co., and )■ 'asked them ..to give me a price, .at which, tijey.ivould •. be .willing: to construct; lb®,swivel, telling,them.#' the i., same time to. lia, as accurate as >possible,tfofc J inr . tended to base .my.tander on. their.infocmatiQP- X > : accompanied Mr. . "Pickery's- partner the i .drawings, and he told:ine.to..call next.da5 r , jmdt tnw E would have .their calculations made....J called M??™" ) ingly, and thay told,me they rwoul<Lfi.aishjjt foE^oo®. . or perhaps £800... ..n ~ »... ¥ ■ . - ". I then saw .thflfc thoy.wero.utterly. th# f work, ani declined to have anythia^.te.^wim t them, kno-c:'. ;", as I:.did,!thi»fc it.would nat,.porohM» > ; .. ..." "I &o.| r.-l-;', , fl '.T'» E." ,*«»,«