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RETURN No. 17—continued. Statement of Stores Contracts current, &c.— continued.

Service. Period. I Name of Contractor. Bate. General stores— continued. Dunedin— General ironmongery Furnishing ironmongery Iron and steel Oils, colours, &c. Ship-chandlery Drain-pipes Lime, ordinary Cement, colonial Brushware Leather, &o. Timber, tallow-wood 31/3/1900 New Zealand Hardware Company Thomson, Bridger, and Co. New Zealand Hardware Company Smith and Smith New Zealand Hardware Company A. Briscoe and Co. Milburn Lime Company As per sohedule. A, Briscoe and Co. New Zealand Hardware Company E. D. Pike and Go. .. Murray, Arnold, and Co. 16/9 per" 100 sup. ft. 19/ As per schedule. and piles, ironbark 30/6/99 Sept., 1899 June, Sept., „ 31/3/1900 E. D. Pike and Co. .. W. Flannery Murray, Arnold, and Co. E. D. Pike and Co. .. Native timber supply— Napier Section Wanganui Robert Holt Palmerston North Sash, Door, and Timber Company William White and Co. Massey and Co. Christchurch *•„ Inveroargill Sleeper supply— Wellington-Napier-New Plymouth— 3,000 totara sleepers 2,000 1,500 2,000 8,000 2,000 400 800 2,000 1,000 '1,000 1,000 2,000 1,000 1,500 800 5,000 Southland District— 400 totara sleepers 22,000 creosoted sleepers 22,900 totara sleepers 1,200 matai sleepers Dunedin District— 9,300 totara sleepers Christchurch District— 2,900 birch sleepers 2,200 puriri sleepers Greymouth Section— 120,720 silver-pine sleepers 320 120 1,170 silver-pine posts Westport Section— 37,320 yellow-pine sleepers 860 birch sleepers Nelson Section — 450 birch sleepers Picton Seotion — 2,460 birch sleepers Wellington-Napier-New Plymouth— 21,600 totara sleepers 2,300 hinau sleepers Auckland District— 13,800 totara sleepers 42,400 puriri sleepers 300 manoao sleepers Dunedin and Invercargill Districts — 14,400 sup. ft. V.D.L. timber 87,600 sup. ft. red-pine timber 2,300 sup. ft. miro timber 28,300 sup. ft. black-pine timber .. 1,800 sup. ft. totara timber 48,800 sup. ft. kauri timber Christchurch Section— 4,300 sup. ft. kauri timber 4,300 sup. ft. blaok-birch timber .. 6,700 sup. ft. V.D.L. timber 2,600 palings 31/10/99 30/11/99 31/1/1900 31/12/99 31/3/1900 31/7/99 31/3/1900 31/12/99 31/3/1900 A. Bergerson R. E. Johnson B. De Malmanche A. Quinlan James Drysdale T. and G. Williams .. A. Hansen Joseph McHaliok Henry Carlson L. G. Anderson C. F. Frederiksen Patrick Scally Hawke's Bay Timber Company (Limited) John Stewart J. T. Entwistle Power and Bussell Einar Andresen James Mackay Campbell and Co. Settlers Lane and Brown 3/ each. 2/6 „ 2/10 „ 3/ „ 3/ . 2/10 ,, 3/ „ 2/9 „ 3/ . 3/ , 3/ ,. 3/ . 3/ „ 3/ „ 3/ . 3/ . 3/ „ 3/ „ 2/6 „ 3/ to 3/3 eaoh. 2/ eaoh. 3/ . 2/2 ,, 3/ and 4/3 each. Settlers 2/6 to 2/9 each. 1/ eaoh. 2/8 to 3/ eaoh. 4Jd. each. 1/9 to 3/ each. 2/3 and 2/4 each. 1/10 each. 2/ „ 2/6 to 3/ each. 3/ and 4/ „ 2/6 to 3/ „ 2/6 to 3/9 „ 2/6 each. Mills in districts 17/7tol9/perl00sup.ft. 6/6 to 17/ 7/ 11/ to 15/ 14/9 to 18/ „ 10/ to 22/6 „ Merchants in district Mills in district 20/6 to 22/6 ,, 13/ 18/ 20/ to 22/6 per 100.