THE RESERVOIR CONTRACT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14657, 26 January 1912, Page 6

THE RESERVOIR CONTRACT.

To ilia Editor "Timaru HeraW.'* „ ®j rj ~~'A 3 tliere is some inis:<meeJtion .k? the reason for mo leaving my positron as dork of works at tha isBerrcir contract I would like suaot ui Ur iP a^er *° nuL^e "the position cienr i fact o£ the matter is that I left because X found it impossible to pet on with the engineer. ( etnted my caso to the committer of the Borough Council, and they to be entirely sympathetic with *my Viow of the I understood that i ,nn intended to rec-omm ».id the Council to reinstate mo, hut I have waited pati-ently—so far tvthout result. I understand the posit ion is th.it the borough engineer wjs in chargo of the work (about CiSf-PO worth) and that he would have disclaimed responsibility i'or. it luid X continued to work on tho job. 1 am very pleased that the Council h ivo letainod his services i.u the moanrimo so that they inav hold him rosponsib'e for tho job. \Vhon it is finished I iicf.o —and confidently he Hero—that they will the injustice that lias been done to me. What I would •ask for now is .an enquiry into the mittor—an'enquiry which *l2 all ho open to the Press and the ratep'iyers. I may say in conclusion that I ain writing this lot-ter on account *,f hsse rumoure which are in to my detriment, and in order to cioar myself in the eyes of the pufclio i o<. vvt the very fullest enquiry into everything I hare done, as well nf* 'r-to wh.nt the enrrnoer has dene. T hove sufficient confidence in "the )3ovo'.H'h Council to heliere that thev will not allow the matter te rept where.it is. and that thev will hold thr* tnnvfry for vhMi I nm. asking. If they chv. I cull promise to then make vomo further d : f>"h's-urcs whivh will sitpi'se thom. —I am. et'\, ALBERT H. OVKREND.