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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 298, 27 May 1879, Page 3

AKAROA AND WAINUI ROAD BOARD rpENDERS are invited for the folJL ! lowing works, viz.:— 1. Forming Five Chains (more or less) Lβ Bon's Bay road, German Bay, and Building Bridge. 2. Re-forming and Grading 35 Chains (more or less) Odell's road, German Bay. 3."Re-forming and Grading 17 Chains (more or less) of Wainui Valley road, from Reed's Entrance to Sadler's Bridge. 4. Forming, Benching and Culvcrting 15 Chains (more or less) of road to Children's Bay, and Building Bridge across the creek. 5. Building Chains (more or less) of Sea-wall, Filling and Widening the Roadway, Putting in new Culvert, Extending old one, and Metalling, at Barry's Bay. 6. Re-grading, Forming, and Putting in Culverts on six Chains (more oivless) of the Barry's Hill road. 7. Widening, Re-forming, and Culverting about 15 Chains, from Long Bay road to Morgan's. Specifications to be seen at the Road. Board Office, Duvauchelle's Bay. Tenders to be sent in by noon on Saturday, the 31st May, endorsed and addressed to the Chairman. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. JOHN BARWICK, Clerk to Board. Road Board Office, Duvauchelle's Bay, May 17, 1879.

POST AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE DUVAUCHELLE'S BAY. Public Works Office, Christchurcli, May 16, 1879. TpRESH Tenders are invited for the JJ Erection of a Post and Telegraph Office at Duvauchelle's Bay. General conditions, specifications, and drawings, may be seen at the Public Works' Office, Christchurch, and the Post Office, Akaroa. Tenders addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, and marked outside " Tender for Post and Telegraph Office," will be received at the above office up to noon on FRIDAY, June 6, 1879. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By command. A. D. AUSTIN, District Engineer. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. LITTLE RIVER AND AKAROA RAILWAY. ELLESMERE CONTRACT. (Formation and Bridges-Length, 17 miles.) Public Works Office, Dunedin, May 9, 1879. YTTRITTEN TENDERS will be VV received at this office until noon on Friday, June G, 1879, for the above contract. They are to be marked on the outside " Tender for Ellcsmerc Contract," and addressed to the Hon. the Minister for fublio Works, Dunedin. Telegraphic lenders, similarly marked and addressed, will be received if presented t:t siny telegraph office by noon of the same day, provided that written tenders in due form <are lodged at any District or Resident Engineer's office by the same hour. Drawings, specifications, and general condition, may be seen at this office, and at the Public Works offices, Cliristchurch and Wellington. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By command, W. N. BLAIR, Engineer in Charge Middle Island. STATIONERY, JOOKS, AC. WIGGINS AND CO,. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL , . ; \ BOOKSELLERS & STATIONERS H" AY E ON SA L E and to . ARRIVE, the LARGEST and most varied assortment of Stationery and Books ever imported into Akaroa. Writing Papers, all sizes and descriptions ; Mourning, Note, Foreign Post, &c , &c. •■■ Envelopes—blue and cream, in all sizes and qualities, from '& to 12 Card, Paste and Mill Boards Visiting Cards, ladies , and gentlemen's Mourning Cards Paper Bags, Luggage Labels De La Rue's Playing Cards, 2s 6d per pack, or 12s 6d per half doz. SCRAPS for albums, in great variety, very cheap Note Paper, from 5s per ream Envelopes, from 12s per 1000 Public bodies, storekeepers and large consumers supplied at reduced rates. Supplies contracted for. Samples and Price List on application. Gift and Reward Books. A large supply to arrive per next steamer. School Committees dealt with on liberal terms. gg* Note the Address — Booksellers and Stationers, WIGGINS & CO., Mail Office, Akaroa. N.B.—Open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.