RENDER ACCEPTED

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1924, Page 8

RENDER ACCEPTED

ORONGORONGO-KARORI PIPE-. , .;'a;.'4. '■ lime. •;-'-' ;;;•

' The City" Ccuncil yesterday .'afternoon,by fpimjil_..Tesolutipn, adopted the tender of a-'New Zealand firm for the supply of pipes'-^for"fhe.Orongorpngp-Karpri main.It i^Tinderstood'tliat ,'the tender accept- •, ed was-the Ip'iyest pf .the ten submitted,. and is "for- the,'.'supply ""of steel piping,whieh will probibly be manufactured, in ,' Wellington! It is. estimated that the -. wages^bill-during'them'an.iifactiire ef .the •pipes will "ampunt "to spmething in the neighbeurhopd of. -"_!100,000, ■ which amount will . remain '..-in Weliingten in .-'place ef being "sent put pf the country, ,■ -orj'j;at any rate, put pf the district; The ; cetincil also cpnfirmed'"machinery" resolutipns in cp'nn'ectien with the Taiis'ing ef. the special Hutt Road loan pf £50,000. .According to a Press Association message from Wanganui, advice .was. receiv« ed yesterday.''afternoon' by, the New Zealand Spiral, and Leek Bar Company, of Wanganui, that' their tender,, running into £135,000, had been accepted by the Wellington City Council for the supply of; pipes in connectien with the Wellington waterworks extensiens. ". ' f-' -1 ')