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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 149, 23 December 1908, Page 2

I SUPPLY OF HARDWOOD SLEEPERS. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office until Noon of WEDNESDAY, 13th January, 1909, for the I Supply and Delivery of Australian Hardwood Timbers in quantities and at the ports mentioned in the following schedule: — Opua, Bay of Islands ... 16,210 1 Auckland or Helonsville ... 20,370 ■ Gisborne 15,195 Wellington 23.M0 Westport 3.000 Greymouth 3,000 Dunedin 14,918 ' Bluff 18,000 ; Tenders are to be addressed to the Mini ister of Public Works, and marked on the i outside "Tender for Hardwood Sleepers." Telegraphic Tenders, similarly marked i and addressed, will be considered if presented 'at any Telegraph Office by noon of the same date, provided that written tenders aro lodged at -any Public Works District Office by the same hour. Schedules, specifications, f,nd conditions of contract may be seen at the Public Works Offices, Auckland, Wellington, Greymouth, Christchurch,, and Dunedin. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. R. W. HOLMES, Engineer-in-Chiof. Public Works Office, Wellington, 7th December, 1908. SUPPLY OF NATIVE SLEEPERS. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this offico until Noon of WED"NESDAY, 13th January, 1909. for tho Supply and Delivery of Railway Sleepers, of Totar.a,, Puriri, or Silver-Pine, in quantities and at the ports mentioned in the following schedule:— ' Opua, Bay of Islands ... 16,000 Auckland or Helensville, Northwards Railway ... 20,000 Gisborne • 15,000 Wellington „ 23,500 Westport .... 11,000 Greymouth ..'.'. 15,200 Tenders are to be Addressed to tho Minister of Public WorKp, and marked on the outside "Tender for Native Sleepers." Telegraphic Tenders," ' similarly marked arid addressed, will be Vomadered if presented at any Telegraph Office by noon of .tho same date, provided Ihaft written tenders are lodged at any Public' Works District Office by the same hour. Schedules, specifications, and conditions of contract may be seen at the .Public Works Offices, Auckland, Stratford, Ohakune, Te Karaka, Wellington, Westport, ' and Greymouth. The lowest or any tender" not necessarily accepted. R. W. HOLMES, Eugineer-in-Chief. Public Works Office, Wellington, 7th December, 1908. GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL, DXJNE-DIN. A RCHITECTS are invited to send in ii Competitive Designs- for a Girls' High School, to bo erected at Dowling-street, Dunedin, for tho Board of Governors of tho Otago Boys' and Girls' High Sohools. Tho total cost of tho portion of the building to bo erected at the present time not -to exceed £9000. Promiums will be awarded follows for tho throe best designs sent in, it being a condition that if tho gainer of tho first premium is appointed architect of tho building the premium is to bo taken as part of his commission: — 1. £100. 2. £75. 6. £50. ' Designs to bo sent in on or before MONDAY, 15th February, 1909. Conditions of competition, plan of site, and other paxticulars can be obtained from tho -anderEigned on payment- of One Pound (£)1), which will bo returned* on receipt of a bona fide design C. MACANDREW, Secretary Board of Governors. Jetty-stroet, Dunedin. CHRISTOHURCH DRAINAGE BOARD. 'mENDERS are invited for the Purchase JL' of Two Hundred and Fifty Deben- ., turos for £100 each, being portion of the "loan authorised by "The Christchurch District Drainage Act, 1875, Amendment Act, 1905," bearing interest at the rate of £4 ; 10s per centum per annum, payable half- ' yearly at the Bank of N.ew Zealand at Auckland, Wellington, Chriatchurch, and Dunedin, freo of exchange. The currency of the Debentures commences on the Ist day of January next, and matures on tho 30th day of June, 1931. ; Tenders should bo endorsed and ' addresbed to tho Chairman, and will be E received up to 4 p.m. of THURSDAY, P the 14th proximo. Interest will be allowed as from the Ist l proximo. Deposit by marked cheque, equal to 5 f per cent, of the amount applied for, to i accompany each tender. No tenders necessarily accepted. 1 By Order, EDWIN CUTHBERT, Engineer and Secretary. .. Christchuroh, 12th December, 1908. i TO BUILDERS, l j 1 mENDERS are invited up to 4 p.m. of JL Thursday, 7th January, 1909, for the Erection of a Residenco at Crofton. Plans, etc., at my office. Hunter-street. H. T. JOHNS, Architect. f I\T^^ 8i Te . a y a turn ! r^ r y *p s • I . n " „ i.^l digestion Cure, his Bronchitis Miy- - ture, his Neuralgia Mixture, his Antiseptic 'a Ointment, his Stomach and Liver Pills, e_tc. Only to be got at 14*, Tory-street.