NATIVE HOSPITAL, WANGANUI.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 331, 30 September 1848, Page 3

NATIVE HOSPITAL, WANGANUI.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, 27th September, 1848. SEALED TENDERS IN DUPLICATE will be received at this Office up to the 10th day of November next, for the erection of an Hospital at Wanganui, New Zealand. Tenders will be received either for the whole or for parts of the work, or for the materials and labour required in the different parts of the work, separately. Each contractor will have to enter into a bond with two approved sureties for the performance of his part of the work. The penalty of the bond to be equal to twothirds the amount of the contract. The Hospital will be a one story building, covering a space about 72x40 feet, and 13 feet high ; containing four rooms with kitchen, and four rooms in the roof. The walls to be of brick on concrete foundations, and stuccoed with Roman Cement on the outside, and white-washed internally. The ceilings are to be lathed and plastered. The timber in the roof, and all the linings, to be of white pine; all the other timber for the floors, doors, and windows, red pine. The window frames will be solid with spluged mullions, and transoms fitted with casement sashes, and glazed with diamond lead lights. The building is to be provided with complete water-closet 'apparatus, pump, cistern, steam-boiler, and bath-room, and common bath. Further particulars will be furnished to persons desirous of contracting for the work, at the Royal Engineer Office, at Wellington, where the drawings and specifications may be seen. By His Excellency's Command, Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary.