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RETURN No. 16—continued. Statement of Stores Contracts, &c.— continued.

Geo. Fei/ton, Railway Stores Manager.

Service, Period. Name of Contractor. Rate. Uniform caps for Stationmasters Forage ... ... Auckland „ ... ... Christchurch Double-boiled oil For 1897 To 31/3/98 ... T. Parker and Co. ... W. and GK Winstone Treleaven and Co. ... E. VV. Mills and Co. E. Beece and Sons ... K. W. Mills and Co. As per schedule. Raw oil Castor oil ... ... ... ... Colza oil Genuine white lead ... Castor oil PJ 1897 2/5I per gal. 2/5 2/3i „ 2/if „ 2/7* » £20/19 per ton. 1/10J per gal. August, 1896 National Mortgage and Agency Company Murray, Arnold, and Co. Timber, ironbark ,, tallow wood G-old passes (130) 6,ooclt. birch timber, Weetport 3,000ft. birch timber, Picton ... 91,000ft. silver-pine timber 1897 March, 1897... 1896 1896-97 1897 E.C.Whitney William Brown S. Kolin, Wellington Mokibinui Sawmill Company... T. A. Price, Belgrove West Coast Timber Company, G-reymouth Ditto Butler Brothers D. Goldie G. D. Wilson and Co. 17/ per iooft., and 1/9 p. lin. ft. piles 17/ and 1/9. IS/620/ each. 10/6 per 100 sup. ft. 7/6 12/6 120,000ft. silver-pine timber ... 12,oooft. silver-pine timber 340,000ft. kauri for Southern sections ... 8,000ft. eilver-pine 4,000ft. red-pine 1,000 while-kauri sleepers, for South 32,000 puriri sleepers, Auckland 4,500 birch and totara sleepers,Wellington 7,000 matai, totara, and maire sleepers, Napier-Taranaki Section 40,000 silver-pine sleepers, Greymouth ... 43,000 yellow-pine sleepere, Westport ... 4,000 birch eleepera, Picton 114,000ft. birch timber, and 13,000 birch sleepers 8,200 black-pine and totara sleepers, Dunedin ,, ... 1896 1897 "." 31/3/97 (I D. Goldie'.'.. Settlers in district ... 12/6 7/ 12/ 11/6 6/ 4/ each. 3/9 and 2/6 each. 2/ and 2/6 „ 2/ to 4/ ,, 1896-97 ,, Settlers, Oxford district 2/ to 2/4 „ 2/ to 2/4 ,, 2/ each. 13/ per iooft., and 2/ each. 2/ and 2/6 each. Settlers in district ... 50,000 black-pine and totara sleepers, Southland ,, 2/ and 2/6 „