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

Service. Period. Name of Contractor. Bate. General stores— continued. Dunedin— continued. Oils, colours, &o. Oil, kerosene Snip-chandlery, &c. Drain-pipes, &o. Indiarubber goods Brushware, N.Z. manufacture .. Iron and steel Leather, &c. Colonial cement and lime 31/3/1908 Bripcoe and 0o. (Limited) Colonial Oil Company Brace, Windle, Blyth Company C. and W. Gore A. and T. Burt (Limited) John Allen John Edmond As per tender. Milburn Lime and Cement Coy. (Ltd.) .. Printed fltationery Chrome tanned-leather hose-pipes Horse-forage, at Auckland .. „ Christchurch Government Printer.. R. A. Cleland J. J. Craig (Limited) T. Wreaks „ Native-timber supply— Christchurch Dunedin and Invercargill Riccarton Timber Company Massey and Co. * Coal-supply— Whangarei Auckland Dunedin-Gore South of Goie Hikurangi Coal Company Taupiri Coal-mines (Limited) New Zealand Coal and Oil Company .. Nightcaps Coal Company „ Uniforms— Stationmasters Guards and porters 31/3/1910 Boss and Glendining A. Levy Uniform caps— Stationmasters, summer Stationmasters, winter Drivers and firemen, summer Drivers and firemen, winter Guards and porters, summer Guards and porters, winter Puggarees Bain-proof cap covers Ross and Glendining 9/3 each. 9/9 ., 3/6 „ 4/6 „ 3/6 „ 3/9 „ lOJd.„ 2/ . 30,000 gallons caster-oil 30,000 , 7,000 „ boiled linseed-oil 4,000 „ raw linseed-oil 16,000 „ filtered valve-oil 30/9/1907 31/4/1908 31/10/1907 Ashby, Bergh, and Co. (Limited) National Mortgage & Agency Coy. (Ltd.) Murray, Roberts, a»>d Co. per gal. 2/5iJ 2/6gd. 2/4gd. 2/ 17/7/1908 Philips and Pike Ironbark timber at Auckland • piles „ timber at Wanganui „ piles „ timber at Wellington timber at Wellington timber at Lyttel ton piles timber at Dunedin 11/4/1908 Richardson and Blair 24/9 & 29/3 per 100 ft. 2/9 per lin. ft. 30/ and 26/ per 100 ft. 2/7 per lin. ft. 30/ and 28/ per 100 ft. 27/ and 28/ 25/ and 26/ per 100 ft. 2/5 per lin. ft. 28/9 to 30/9 per 100 ft. E. D. Pike and Co. .. 11/10/1907 11/4/1908 Fras<-r and Co. E. D. Pike and Co. .. 4,000 iron-bark sleepers at Dunedin 13/9/1907 Bichardson and Blair 4/2 eaoh. Brush-box timber at Auckland at Wellington at Dunedin 11/4/1908 Praser and Co. E. D. Pyke and Co. .. 22/9 per 100 ft. 23/ per 100 ft. 25/3 per 100 ft. J&rrah sleepers— 10,000 at Wellington 30/11/1907 Millar's West Australian Hardwood Company (Limited) Ditto 3/10f each. 20,000 „ Lyttelton 20,000 „ Dunedin .. . .. 10,000 „ Dunedin or Bluff 30,000 „ Wellington 20,000 » Timaru 30,000 , Wellington 31/3/1908 30/4/1908 Samuel Brown (Limited) 8/9J eaoh 3/9J i 3/9* . 3/9J and 3/10} eaoh" 31/3/1908 Millar's West Australian Hardwood Company (Limited) Ditto 20,000 „ Lyttelton .. 20,000 , Timaru . .. 25,000 . Auckland 3/11J each 3/6 13/8/1908 South-west Timber-hewers' Co-operative Society (Limited) Ditto 25,000 „ Wellington 25,000 „ Lyttel on 25,000 „ Dunedin or Port Chalmers 10,000 „ Bluff .. 3/6 3/6 3/6 3/6 New Soutli Wales tiardwood sleepers— 10,000 at Auckland 10,000 „ Dunedin 31/8/1908 Samuel Brown (Limited) E. W. Fitzgerald 3/8J . 4/1