HARBOR BUARD.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1016, 8 October 1903, Page 3

HARBOR BUARD.

(PENDERS FOR TRAINING. WALL,

A special meeting of the Harbor Board was held yesterday, there being present : Messrs .Townley (Chairman), Hepburn, Clark, Siev.wright, Matthewson, Whinray, and Captain Tucker. Three tenders were received for the extension of the western training wall, as followsP* McLaughlin and Co., £16,624 13s 4d ; Mackrell and Colley, £17,208 5s 4d ; J. McLean and Sons, £17,490 ; the latter also sent a letter stating that they could considerably reduce their tender if the proportions of cement were reduced... It .would,, they, stattake casks of cement .to one ,rd of concrete. •' "he previous .tenders were looked and it jva's found that Mc>’s tendbr’then .was £17,502 ss, J as. Sellars tendered £12,245

Secretary, stated that the difbetween' the Engineer, Selnd McL&ftejwas in. the cement and that'there was no maliilerence i'in the ironwork, or stone;’'* 7 McLean put the at £IO,OOO ; Sellars put it JOO ; and ,;kthe Engineer at V odd. The, Engineer and Selwere within'l£9oo and £IOOO of . other.- .vf M) Sicvwright :*jTt is an extraordinary difference,’ -£SOOO, to make /ivi.-i a contract. ■«£:; The Secretary, : .There is over ■£4ooo difference in the cement alone. Tin- proportions were 2 of sand and if of stone to 1 of cement. McLean s excluded the sand altogether, sayring that it was lost, and termed the ’quantities 1 in 3. Mr Hepburn : Cement is very much cheaper now than it was when tenders were previously called. The Secretary: No; my quotations are exactly the same Irom McKwen and Son—Bs 9d to 0s 6d per cask at Home, to which duty, freight, etc., 1 has to !be added. I received the quotation last months Continued on pago 4.