THE DRAINAGE WORKS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13710, 26 September 1908, Page 4

THE DRAINAGE WORKS.

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-- «Daff-~cb6&ict - tetanent should not be dropped, and the day-labour element adopted in its entirety. The suggestion -was that .the excavation of the trenches and their refibnent after the laying of :the pipes* should be let in small extracts to co-operative gangs. All ihe rest was to be done by tbfe'Council, which would then, be responsible for plans and specifications, contracts for materials, laying of pipes andsupervision." We cannot imagine what virtne there would be in excluding the nawying part of the work'-^fromrthe hands of the CounciL The objection* to «uch a course, on the other hand, are manifold, but as they were fully ventilated last night, and as the scheme was Tejected, there is no :nvd to labour them here. We need only repeat that .i£ the contract system, has i ot come np to the Council's expectations, the only reasonable alternative was for the Council to become ita own contract-jr.