New Steel Pipe Company

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42782, 23 September 1905, Page 2

New Steel Pipe Company

An important decision was arrived .t, by the Auckland Ci:y Council at a special meeting last week when, after lengthy diseussiou, it adopted a recommendation of the Streets Committee fur the acceptance of the tender of the Mephau Fergus m Patent Locking Bar S'eel Pipe Company, of New Zealand, for £01,688 Is, for the supply :nd delivery of water pipes and fittings in connection with the *Waitakere waterworks exieusion scheme. The com pan v has announced its intention of establishing works in Auckland, which will necessarily mean the employment of a considerable number 'of men. An >tl\or tender, that of Messrs G. and G. Hoskins, Ltd., of Sydney, was for £61,005 18s Id, but it was tin own out as informal, v The Ferguson Company’s first big contract was i the constructing and l lying of upwards of 200 miles of pipes from Perth to Coolgardie. “in South Australia. The pipes are con» structed of plates curved v r.pund, and joined by means of a lougitudioally • grooved clumping bar without the use of rivets. : •: