24

D.—2

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

Service. Period. Name of Contractor. Bate. General stores — continued. Dunedin — continued. Oils, colours, &c. Oil, kerosene Ship-chandlery Drain-pipes Indiarubber goods Brushware, N.Z. manufacture .. Iron and steel Leather, &c. Colonial cement and lime 31/3/1908 . Brisooe and Co. Colonial Oil Company Brace, Windle, and Co. C. and W. Gore A. and T. Burt John Allen John Edmond As per tender. Milburn Lime and Cement Company ., 20,000 gallons castor-oil 20,000 21,600 gallons dark mineral axle-oil .. 12,500 „ high - pressure filtered valve-oil 4,200 „ pale machine-oil 34,750 „ mineral colza-oil 5,000 fire-lumps, Auckland 15 tons fire-lumps, Greymouth .. Freight of biroh sleepers, Marlborough Sounds to Lyttelton Iron castings at Auckland . 31/5/1905 31/12/1905 31/3/1906 Brisooe and Co. National Mortgage and Agenoy Company James Service and Co. 2/0f gal. 2/5J 9£d. tolOd. „ 2/3 J. J. Craig Grey - Point Elizabeth Company Cranby and Co. 1/ 9d. 4/ eaoh. £6 ton. 1/1 each. 31/7/1905 31/10/1906 31/3/1906 Massey Brothers C. Collings .. .. J. J. Craig .. T. Wreaks Government Printer.. .. K. A. Cleland 12/ and 12/6 cwt. As per tender. Horse-forage, at Auckland .. , Christehurch Printed stationery Chrome tanned-leather hose-pipes 31/8/1908 Native-timber supply— Christchuroh Dunedin and Invercargill 31/3/1906 William White and Co. Massey and Co. Coal-supply— Whangarei Auokland Dunedin-Gore South of Gore 31/3/1906 Hikurangi Coal Company Taupiri Coal-mines New Zealand Coal and Oil Company .. Nightcaps Coal Company 8/4 per ton. 8/ „ 8/6 „ 7/6 and 5/ per ton. Ironbark timber at Auckland piles „ ~TT timber at Wellington Wanganui » „ Lyttelton „ piles at timber at Bluff piles „ timber at Nelson piles timber at Picton piles timber at Westport piles 6/6/1905 W. Flannery N. Cain .. '.'. '.'. '.'. J. Breckenridge » ■• • ■ •■ Murray, Arnold, and Co. 19/ per 100 sup. ft. 1/11 per lin. ft. 21/ per 100 sup. ft. 21/ 20/ 2/9 per lin. ft. 18/6 per 100 sup. ft. 2/per lin. ft. . 22/6 per 100 sup. ft. 2/3 per lin. ft. 23/ per 100 sup. ft. 2/6 per lin. fb. 24/ per 100 sup. ft. 2/4 per lin. ft. Fraser and Co. .. .. E. D. Pike and Co. .. Tallow-wood timber — Auokland Wellington Port Chalmers 16/5/1905 H. and W. Flannery .. 19/ per 100 sup. ft. 19/6 20/6 u, .... Grey ironbark sleepers— 1,200 sawn at Wanganui 5,800 hewn 1,000 sawn at Wellington 5,000 hewn . 8,000 sawn at Lyttelton 2,000 hewn » 8,000 sawn at Dunedin 5,000 hewn 2,000 sawn at Bluff 3,000 hewn 551 sawn, special sizes, at Grey, mouth 450 hewn at Greymouth 1,500 „ Westport .. 450 „ Nelson 31/1/1906 E. D. Pike and Co. .. Joseph Eeid Allen Taylor and Co. .. .. E. T>. Pike and Co. .. .. . ... Maurice O'Connor Allen Taylor and Co. Joseph Beid E. D. Pike and Co. .. Soott, Sibbald, and Co. 5/ eaoh. mi . 4/4§ „ 3/8$ , 4/6 3/94 , 4/44 , 3/8J „ */«* . 3/8J - 7/ . E. D. Pike and Co. .. 4/3J „ 4/3* . 4/34 . Ironbark timber at Lyttelton Brush box „ Ironbark timber at Dunedin „ Auckland Brush-box timber at Auckland Ironbark piles timber at Wanganui Brush-box « Ironbark piles at Wanganui timber at Wellington 2/6/1906 Murray, Arnold, and Co. 23/6 per 100 sup. ft. 19/ 47/ per pole. 21/6 per 100 sup. ft. 20/ „ 2/3 per lin. ft. 22/6 per 100 sup. ft. 20/ 2/3 per lin. ft. 21/6 per 100 sup. ft. 21/6 1/3/1906 1/9/1906 Gollin and Co. . . Fraser and Co. N. Cain ,. ,, .,