METAL SUPPLIES

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1661, 10 September 1925, Page 4

METAL SUPPLIES

FROM TE KAWA QUARRY/ In an article appearing in our last Saturday’s issue we corrected an unwitting but' perhaps implied injustice done to the Te Kawa Quarry -Company in the leading article of a former issue. We published this correction in a spirit of fairness to the company and its management, which is developing an enterprise that was much needed in this district. Having done so, we con 7 eluded that that would close the incident. On Thursday morning, however, while in touch with;the works committee of the Borough Council, our representative was made ;awarte of other aspects of _ the matter, which rfenders it a duty to display the same spirit of fairness to the Borough Council. The extract from the Mayor’s remarks at the Borough Council meeting ten days ago, referred to in our correction, when he was reported to have stated that “the Te Kawa quarries had scarcely yet fixed a/ definite price for its metal,” was obviously misunderstood, for the Mayor explains that the company’s schedule of prices had been read out earlier in the meeting, and was, as we now know, actually lying before him on the table while he was speaking. His remarks referred to the railage costs, which had not then been put before the Council, and which incidentally did not come to the knowledge of the Council ‘until Thursday morning, when our own copy of the new railway tariff was loaned to the Mayor. Without the cost of haulage being available, the information to enable the Council to compute its requirements in accordance with its financial cogimitments was incomplete. It is therefore apparent that the delay in dealing with the Te Kawa metal question was no fault of the Borough Council. We have reason to believe that as a result of negotiations this week, based on the new railway tariff, the Council has been able to make a satisfactory contract with the Te Kawa quarry proprietary for supplies of metal required. ;