OTAGO DOCK CONTRACT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5729, 26 October 1905, Page 5

OTAGO DOCK CONTRACT.

PRESS ASSOCIATION, DUNEDIN, October 25. At a meeting of the Otago Bock Trust to-day, when tho question came up of completing the contract with Luttrel! •and Scott, of Christchurch, attention was •called to tho fact that ill- G. G. Stead’s name was not down as a guarantor. Members wore under the impression that Mr. Stead’s name was mentioned. Tho chairman said Mr Geo. Scott and Mr G. G. Stead were first mentioned, but Mr George Palmer’s name was now substituted for Mr Stead’s. Mr Luttrell. tho contractor,' on being called in, said there waa no substitution of names. Mr Palmer was Mr Stead’s partner, and the reference to Stead and Co. was merely a guide to tho Trust as to who Mr Palmer was. Ho believed Mr Stead would act if the Trust preferred him.

It was decided to hold a special meeting to consider tho matter. In the matter of the contract for the supply of cement, Briscoe and Co., tho lowest - tenderers, wrote that it would not bo fair to ask them to supply one half the quantity at the some price as they had put in for the whole. It was decided to divide the contract, Briscoe and Co. supplying one half the quantity re3uired on the basis of their original tenor. and tho Milbnm Co. tho other half on the basis of their original tender.