PUBLIC WORKS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20125, 20 December 1939, Page 11

PUBLIC WORKS

RECENT TENDERS

CONTRACTS ACCEPTED

Tenders accepted by the Public Works Department lor contracts in various parts of the Dominion were published in the. Gazette issued last week.

Contracts involving more than £SOOO are as follows:—Rotorua'water supply. 500,000 gallon reservoir, £5300; Lincoln Agricultural College, short-course accommodation block, £6895; Gisborne-Napier via Hangaroa State highway, Esk River bridge, £10,700: Inangahua-Greymouth State highway, scaling operations, £8927; State Forest Service, Whakarewarewa, dry kilns equipment, £5733; liamilton-Te Kuiti State highway, Otorohanga County, metalling and priming, £8464; Brice main highway, reconstruction and sealing, £6734; Mosgiel, * erection of post-office and postmaster’s residence, £9933; Christ-church-Kumara State highway, reconstruction and sealing, £19,246; Blen-heim-Nelson State highway, Rai Valley, Whangamoa, preparing and sealing, £16,445; Masham-Belfast-Hare-wood aerodrome and Hornby-Mas-ham main highways, reconstruction and bituminous paving, £9128; Pae-ron-Whakatane State Highway, sealing, £5379; Waihi Beach main highway, reconstruction and sealing, £9349; Waikuku Beach main highway, reconstruction and sealing, .£'5343; Gis-borne-Napier, via Hangaroa, Opoiti bridge, £9769; Rangitata-Gernldine main highway, reconstruction and sealing, £13,191; Timaru-Cromwell and Milton-Queenstown State highways, sealing, £10,331. East Coast Contracts In addition to the Esk River and Opoiti bridge contracts included in the above list, the following tenders for other work in the Gisborne and neighbouring districts were let recently:—

Waikaremoana lower development, Fipripaua No. 2 Camp School, W. Medley, £1325; Whakatane-Gisborne. via Waioeka, State highway, construction, 54 miles from Gisborne, Amalgamated Transport, Limited, £423, and

reconstruction 53 miles from Gisborne, Amalgamated Transport, Limited, £942; Gisborne Intermediate 'School, formation and grading_ of grounds, Mclntosh and Brooking, £980; Gisborne courthouse alterations, J. Webb, £48(5; Opotiki-Te Araroa main highway, bridges at 14.7 miles and 15 miles, F. G. Mahy. £4079; Whakatane-Gisborne, via Waioeka, State highway, Matawai lownshio section, reconstruction and sealing, W. S. Goosman and Company, £2820; Gis-borne-Te Araroa State highway, Mangapukalca Stream bridge, R. Taylor, £2237.

Metalling Work.-- Whakalane-Gis-boi ne highway, cartage and delivco of 701yds. of metal, N. 11. Seminens, £440; metalling Molu River bridge to Waikevva Stream bridge, Coast highway, Drake Bros., £012; Hangaroa highway, quarrying 12,800.y<fls. of stone, Doyle, Marker and Smith. £4395; Coast highway, metalling 70.3 miles to 81.8 miles, and 84.5 miles to 80.5 miles, II L. Conn. £455.