DEEP GREEK WATER SUPPLY

Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 2

DEEP GREEK WATER SUPPLY

PIPES AND FITTINGS TENDER OF £81.280 ACCEPTED The tender of Messrs Hume Steel Ltd. of £81,281) fVs for the supply and delivery of approximately thirty-six miles of steel pipes and liftings for the pipe line from the intake at Deep Creek to Stoney ivnowe was accepted at last night’s meeting of the City Council, which considered in committee the recommendations of the Water Committee. The special report of the Water Committee stated that the committee had considered the tenders received lor the supply and delivery of approximately fhirty-six .miles of steel pipes and fittings required for the pipe line from the intake at Deep Creek to Stoney Known (pipes and fittings required from Stoney Known to the existing city mains were not called for in the specification). Tenders for. the whole or part of the materials required had been received from eight linns, ol which four submitted full tenders and four partial tenders. After careful consideration of the whole matter the committed recommended that the tenders of Messrs Hume Steel Ltd. be accepted for'all nine construction section contracts at schedule rates, as quoted, and which had been calculated to a total sum of £81,280 17s for the nine construction section contracts. A further sum equal to 3 per cent, was to be added on the schedule price of the pipes if manufactured from steel made in. Great Britain. Messrs Hume Steel Ltd. provided for manufacture of pipes in Duilediu (with the exception of the thicker pipe—l2£ per cent, of the total length—which they reserved, the • right to manufacture in Wellington). They further advised that they had entered into an agreement with Messrs A. and T. Burt Ltd. that in the event of tile acceptance of their tenders they would place an. order with Messrs A. and T. Burt Ltd. for bends, tapers, branch pieces for tee pipes, bellmouths, all valves, high-pressure flexible joints for pipes, all of which would also be manufactured in Dunedin. Messrs Huuje Steel Ltd. guaranteed to deliver pipes at 3,000 ft per week from four months after acceptance, littings to be delivered to suit this rate of supply. This rate of delivery corresponds to completing delivery of 191.000 ft by about November 30, 1935. The report was adopted, and the council resolved that the pipes should be constructed of steel made in Great Britain.