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RETURN No. 17. Statement of Stores Contracts current during the Year ending 31st March, 1904.

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Servioe. Period. Name of Contractor. Rate. Gold passes for members 9/5/1903 Eash and Gooder . 23/4 each. Horse-forage, at Auckland .. „ Christchurch 31/3/1904 a W. and G. Winstone.. .. Geo. Treleaven and Go. As per tender. Native-timber Supply— Christohuroh Dunedin and Inveroargill W. White and Co. .. Macpherson and Co... It m Tallow-wood timber— Auckland 28/2/1904 E. D. Pike and Co., Michael and Reid, Murray, Arnold, and Co. William Flannery Allen Taylor and Co. * • • *, 21/6 per 100 sup. ft. Wellington Lyttelton Port Chalmers 31/7/1904 20/ 20/11 . 20/11 . tf Ironbark timber at Auckland Ironbark timber and piles— Wanganui 28/2/1904 E. D. Pike and Co. .. 21/4 Murray, Arnold, and Co. 22/6 per 100 sup. ft. and 2/9 lin. ft. 20/9 per 100 sup. ft., and 2/ lin. ft. 21/6 per 100 sup. ft., and 2/1 lin. ft. 22/ per 100 sup. ft., and 2/2 lin. ft. 19/6 and 22/6 per 100 sup. ft. 22/6 per 100 sup. ft., and 2/3 lin. ft. 22/3 per 100 sup. ft., and 2/4 lin. ft. 23/ per 100 sup. ft., and 2/4 lin. ft. 23/ per 100 sup. ft. 4/5 each. 4/5 . 5/ 5/ 5/ 4/5| . 4/5| . 3/8 3/8 4/4 3/8 Wellington E. D. Pike and Co. .. Christohuroh n Dunedin it Ironbark timber at Invercargill „ and piles at Picton .. „ „ Westport „ at Greymouth Ironbark sleepers sawn at Auckland .. Wellington „ Wanganui „ Westport .. „ Nelson Lyttelton.. „ Dunedin .. Bluff Ironbark sleepers hewn at Auckland .. Wellington „ Wanganui „ Dunedin .. 31/3/1904 Joseph Reid W. B. Sharp .'.' .'. .'. Allen Taylor and Co. E. W. Fitzgerald .. .. .[ Iron castings at Auckland 31/7/1904 Seagar Bros. 12/, 11/9 per owt. Steel castings, Auckland „ Wellington Christchurch „ Dunedin 31/3/1904 Wilkinson, Callon, and Co. .. 4|d. lb. 4|d. „ 4|d. . 4Jd. . 18,000 gallons castor-oil 27,000 „ dark mineral axle-oil .. 11,000 „ high - pressure filtered valve-oil 3,500 „ pale machine-oil 26,000 „ mineral colza 12/12/1903 11/6/1904 3riscoe and Co. (Limited) 1/llf per gallon. 9fd. 2/3 ames Servioe and Co. 31/3/1904 1/ 9d. Coal-supply— Whangarei Section . R. Reyburn iikurangi Coal Co. (Limited) 'aupiri Coal-mines (Limited) Westport Goal Company Greymouth-Point Elizabeth Railway and Coal Co. Greymouth-Poinfc Elizabeth Railway and Coal Co. ilaokball Coal Company Westport Goal Company Greymouth-Point Elizabeth Railway and Coal Co. Westporfc Coal Company -reymouth-Point Elizabeth Railway and Goal Go. Westport Coal Company .. reymouth-Point Elizabeth Railway and Coal Co. Westport Coal Company .. . ■. : 8/6 per ton. 8/ 8/ 17/6 24/6 Auckland » at Westport „ „ at Onehunga .. Wellington-Napier-New Plymouth 24/6 , h m n 24/6 25/6 28/6 n n ii 24/6 27/6 H # a ii 23/ 26/6 laokball Coal Company .. .. ! Greymouth-Point Elizabeth Rail way and ! Coal_Co. 23/ 19/ 22/C , 22/6