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Free Lance, Volume VI, Issue 287, 30 December 1905, Page 16

STEAM SERVICE NEW ZEALAND TO SOUTH AFRICA. TENDERS are invited by the New Zealand Government — First, for a direct steam service between New Zealand ports and South Africa; second, for a service between New Zealand ports andi South Africa, via Fremantle, with permission to call at one other port in Australia. CONDITIONS. The Contract to be for a period of two yeaia>. The service to be six-weekly. The steamers to be not lessi than three thousand five hundred tons register, and their draught, when loaded, must enable them to discharge at wharves at South African ports. Lighterage, when necessary, to be paid! by contractors. The steamers to be fitted with refrig^ratorb to. carry frozen meat and dairy produce. Tenderers to state the maximum amount of refrigerator space. Tenderers to state maximum accommodation for live stock. The steamers to have minimum accommodation for twenty saloon and twenty-five steerage passengers, and to provide suitable space for mails. The speed of steamers to be not less than ten knots (ocean going), with penalty and bonus on a^scale to be arranqred, but not to exceed £500 per voyage. The steamers to load at four selected ports in New Zealand in geographical order, and to discharge at the three following ports in South Africa • Durban, Port Elizabeth, and Table Bay. The rates of freight from New Zealand ports to South Africa shall not be greater than the following- — Wheat, at per ton weight, 27s 6d. Flour, at per ton weight, 27s 6d. Barley, at per ton weight, 27s 6d. Oats, at per ton weight, 27s 6d. Bran, at per ton weight, 30s. Potatoes, in sacks, at per ton weight, 32s 6d. Potatoes, in boxes, at per ton of 50 cubic feet measurement, 30s. Hay, oaten or meadow, pressed in bales, at per ton of 50 cubic feet measurement, 32s 6d. Horses and full-grown cattle, £10 10s each. Frozen meat and dairy produce at current summer rates ruling between New Zealand and London. Other goods at rates current between New Zealand and London. The rates of freight from New Zealand to Jfiemantle must not exceed the rates current from time to time from Sydney and Melbourne, to Fremantle. Tenderers to state what period, of time required before berthing the first steamer in New Zealand, such time to count from the date of acceptance of tender. Tenderers are required to state the different amounts of subsidy required per voyage for either of the services. A tender and its acceptance are to be considered the establishment of a contract binding on both sides, the cardinal points are to be consistent with this advertisement, the tender, and its acceptance. Should! any dispute arise over minor points, the matter in dispute shall be referred' to arbitration. A deposit of £2000 is to accompany each tender, and in the case of the successful tenderer to bei returned upon completion of a satisfactory charter. Marked, written, or telegraphic tenders addressed to the Secretary for Industries and Commerce, Wellington, New Zealand, or to the High Commissioner for New Zealand, Loidcs, Trill be received up to and) including the 31sfc January, 1906. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. T. E. DONNE Secretary. Department of Industries and Commerce, Wellington, 22nd December, 1905.

GRAND SEA EXCURSION f-~ "* * To PICTON On NEW YEAR'S DAY (MONDAY, JANUARY Ist). S.S. MARAROA Will make an Excursion as above, leaving Queen's Wharf at 7.30 a.m. sharp, and Picton on Return Trip at 4 p.m. Brass Band in attendance. RETURN FARE, p* / Oi "• MEALS "I //3 UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND (LIMITED).

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