CITY CONTRACTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 936, 1 October 1910, Page 6

CITY CONTRACTS.

THE WADESTOWN LINE. The City Council has completed: the additional Contracts ;for the/supply of /material;; for the:. Wadestown /line:—Millar's -West Australian' : supply. ; -2507/ : special." sleepers, for £91 Bs. Bd., total £9281 - Unaccepted: 6. W. Wallace and Co., £987 6s. lOd.; Richardson, Blair and M'Cabo, £972 4s. 6d., alternative tender ■ £947. 35., 4d.; > Fraser. and Co.; Ltd, £1034 13s. lid , New Zealand Po-well Wood Process Company,' Ltd., £876 3s. | Id. In this case the lowest tender: |waS ; not accepted,.Vbecause'::the City,: Engineer lias not had .. sufficent proof .-of tho efficacy of the prooess. S, Brown, Ltd., . aro 'to supply 100' ,dfoiil»rk'.:iwles.; f<>r '£99.; , 35: ::4d. ; cepted tenders: ..J, 'Wallace, and'.Co.', £106 'Is;.' 2d.; Richardson', Bhir and. 'M'Cabo, £107 35.: 9d.; Fraser: and Co., New South.Wales, £135.85. 4d. :.; . . J. Duthie ajid Co..have contracted to supply rails and accessories .'at. a. cost '.of £3365'35. lid. Unaccepted tenders: H. S. King,,£3l64 3s.- 9d:; Empire Od Company, £3167 os. ' 3d.-; Richardson, Blair and M'Cabo, £3522 12s. 8d- ; -It will'. bo ..noted' that ; in. connection •with', the ..'last-mehtioned contract' the' two lowest tenders'were declined.: Rea*sons, stated arovthat in; .the lowest- tender- it- was not; stated- where tho. goods-: were to bo manufactured, and. that .tho tender : was in'another particular- at variance, with tho ' specifications S and; therefore jinformal. Hie' next .lowest tender was for- rails . .manufactured in America. The accepted •ien.dor'was 'for rails' ''manufactiafed;: ..the council has a resident inspector and; representative,'T3ie>'cost' of 'sending-.this representative to America would pro-, bably have covered the - difference between, the, -tenders. -. In general,'morer over.: the corporation prefers; goods of British manufacture, and accords, them' a measure of preference. / v...'.-..'-,. 1