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"A."—Details of Construction Account, £523,324 5s. 10d., being Amount actually paid to Contractors.

The New Zealand Midland Railway Company (Limited) (Norman H. M. Dalston, Wellington, 9th July, 1900. General Manager).

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No. of Contract. Name of Contractor. Contract. Length . of Section. Amount paid to Contractor. 1 McKeone, Eobinson, & Avigdor Ditto Teremakau to Stillwater 1 Brunnerton to Stillwater Stillwater to Nelson Creek J Ahaura Section Totara Plat Section Mawhera-iti Section Little Grey, Squaretown Section Cross-girders Ten low-side wagons One locomotive, Class "D"... Springfield to Patterson's Creek Stony Creek Section Belgrove Section Survey Ahaura Temporary Station ... Signals, Stillwater Junction ... Thirty-four telegraph-poles ... Stillwater Station additions ... Stillwater to Kokiri, fencing... Telegraph materials 999 sleepers Belgrove to Motueka Section Norris Gully extension Totara Flat Hotel ... Eeefton Station Eefreshment-room and Postoffice, Totara Flat Station Kotuku Section Stillwater Junction Carriageshed Patterson's Creek Bridge foundations Totara Flat Station sheep-pens Kotuku Section girders Stillwater Station additions ... Lake Brunner Section Supplementary work, Lake Brunner Section Teremakau Section Stillwater Station triangle ... Big Kowai Bridge pitching ... Plate girders, Kotuku and i Teremakau Sections Stillwater Station triangle, ballasting Stillwater yard-drains and. bushwork Kaimata tunnel shelter-yard Eeefton Station-yard bushwork Kowai Bridge girder additions Stillwater Station weighbridge foundations Ironbark timber for bridges ... Eaupo Station loading-ramp... Brunnerton-Stillwater Bridge additions Bemoving cottage to Eeefton Station Ngahere Stationmaster's house additions Inchbonnie quarry-works Girders, &c. Freight ... M. cb. £ s. d. 2 3 4 5 6 7&7a 8 9 10 11 12 13 14, 15 17 18 19 20 21 22 22a 23 24 25 17 60f 119,359 16 2 a • ■ - Jay & Co., Joseph Eees & Co., J. E. 5 55| 9 30 9 40 5 0 26,985 4 3 36,298 14 0 36,737 19 0 51,606 7 4 2,046 2 11 800 0 0 955 0 0 46,654 4 6 9,790 9 3 580 8 6 1,070 11 9 144 9 5 42 10 0 280 7 10 115 5 0 39 10 8 112 7 9 51,210 19 2 3,007 3 1 1,139 8 0 6,809 9 7 164 17 6 Scott Brothers N.Z. Government Eailways Scott Brothers ... Anderson, J. & A. Jay & Co., Joseph Dartnell, W. W. Jay & Co., Joseph N.Z. Government Eailways Cochrane, D. L. & W. Arnott & Sons, J. Killeen, Michael Chief Postmaster, Greymouth Algie & Priest Maguire, Allen ... 5 54| 1 44| 5 844 it • * • * - - Bignell, Henry ... Eees & Co., J. E. Bignell, Henry ... 0' 54J 26 27 Jay & Co., Joseph Eussell, E. 5 34$ 24,277 1 4 576 0 0 28 Anderson, J. & A. 6,739 11 8 29 30 31 32 32a Bignell, Henry ... Scott Brothers Bignell, Henry ... Jay & Co., Joseph Bignell and others 10 19-| 36 15 0 2,062 8 7 130 6 0 28,581 16 9 674 5 3 33 34 35 36 Eees & Co., J. E. Kennefick & Kells Anderson, J. & A. 6 15 25,758 4 5 110 2 0 350 0 0 4,469 8 6 37 Kells & Dickens ... 202 2 0 38 Turnbull, James ... 145 10 0 39 40 41 42 Butler Brothers ... Costigan, Patrick Anderson, J. & A. Bignell, Henry ... 147 9 8 12 0 0 20 0 0 140 8 9 43 44 46 Jay & Co., Joseph Sundry persons ... Bignell, Henry ... 144 2 0 43 9 4 606 14 1 47 34 5 6 48 De Berry & Sweetman 85 3 3 49 Baff&Son Braithwaite & Kirk Miles & Co. Sundry expenses... Ibbotson Brothers & Co. ... 280 15 7 18,729 7 8 12,489 17 5 232 7 5 293 8 0 Steel pile-shoes and freight ... ... I Total mileage 82 43 £523,324 5 10