Contract let for Games towels

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33067, 7 November 1972, Page 1

Contract let for Games towels

A Christchurch firm has successfully tendered to supply 9200 towels to the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee for use during the Games. Of this total, 8000 will be used at the Ham village and 1200 at various places of visitor accommodation.

Within the next week the Games organisation’s village committee hopes to let tenders for the supplv of 7000 sheets and 3600 pillow-cases.

Of these totals, 1600 i sheets and 800 pillow-cases will be used at accommodation places outside the I village. t . The chairman of the village committee (Mr H. T. Dean) said yesterday that during the time, the village was occupied by competitors and officials towels would be laundered daily and sheets and pillow-cases once a The laundering would be carried out by the firms which hold such rights at the respective venues: and if they were unable to cope an offer i of assistance from the North Canterbury Hospital Board i would be accepted. It was important, said Mr Dean, that the contracts for the supplv of towels and bed linen be let as soon as possible. for at least six months

was necessary for manufacturers to complete the orders.

The towels will be made from material imported from India; the fabric for the sheets and pillow-cases will come from Hong Kong.

Mr Dean said it was intended soon to offer for sale iby tender all these items of linen, the possession date ! being after the Games. Depreciation would be taken into account and it was thought that there would be about seven linen rental firms interested. Steel bunks—another item which will be sold after the Games —are to be fitted into each of the single rooms in the Ham halls of residence. Recently at one haU students took part in an experiment to see if there were any problems associated with having two people share a room. As a result, a second bedside light will be fitted. Arrangements have been completed with a Christchurch hire firm to provide 800 mattresses to go on the bunks.