BIG CONTRACT

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1926, Page 2

BIG CONTRACT

JET BY N.Z. RAILWAYS. TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. WELLINGTON, September 14. The tender of the Scottish engineering firm, of Sir William Arrol and Co. has been accepted hy the Government for the erection of the new railway workshops at l’etone. The contract price is not divulged, but it is understood that it is between £IBO,OOO and £200,000. All British materials are to be used in the execution of the work. Nine firms submitted tenders. Tbs final selection was made from tlia three following:—Sir William Arrol and Co., the Horseley Bridge and Engineering Coy and Dorman Long and Co.

Sir William Arrol and Co. were the lowest tenderers. Their local representatives are Messrs Corv, M right Salmon. The tender of Sir William Arrol and* Co. is considered by the special committee which inquired into the tenders to be ( very satisfactory. The new workshops are to be erected at the I-Tutt, close to Wniwetu stream. They will lie required for the centralised locomotive repair shops for the heavy repairs for the North Island. Their complete erection will take, it is estimated, about fourteen months, after which the installation of the machinery and equipment will be proceeded with. Since it is recognised that the economies on which the scheme of improvement is based will not he obtained in their fullest measure till the works are completed, every effort is being made to complete them in three years, as planned .