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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21266, 21 February 1931, Page 18

TENDERS. REVELS COUNTY COUNCIL. PICTON-BLUFF MAIN HIGHWAY. TENDERS will be received until 4 p.m. WEDNESDAY, February 25, at the Levels County Offices, Timaru, for— Contract No. 2. —Three-coat Bituminous Surfacing between Northern Borough Boundary and W. J. Clarke’s (distance 4 miles). Plans and specifications at Offices .of the Public Works Department at Christchurch and Dunedin, and at the County Office, 60 Church street, Timaru. THOMAS BLACK, County Engineer. K ING EDWARD TECHNICAL COLLEGE. TENDERS are invited for the LEASE of TECHNICAL COLLEGE PROPERTY at Balmacewen as from MARCH 31, 1931. Terms:: Yearly lease, including tenancy of house, but not of hutments and concrete buildings. Tenders CLOSE at 5 p.m. on SATURDAY, February 28. W. G. ALDRIDGE, 17f Principal and Secretary. RENDER FOR PLOUGHING. Tenders are invited up to SATURDAY, February 28, for Ploughing about 70 ACRES at Waipiata Sanatorium. A deposit of 10 per cent, on contract must accompany each Tender, which should be addressed to the “ F ARM COMMITTEE," care Mr B. Ritchie, Farm Manager, from whom all particulars can be obtained. rpENDERS are invited for CATERING A during the day and also at Ball at night on EASTER MONDAY, April 0, 1931. Further particulars from SECRETARY, Strath-Taicri A. and P. Society, Middlemarch. TgRICKS. BRICKS. BRICKS. C. & W. SHIEL, LTD., Dunedin. NOTICE TO BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS. AND BUILDERS’ MERCHANTS. We are now Operating Our New Modern Brickmaking Plant at Fairfield, Dunedin, and, being Connected with the Railway System, we can Rail Bricks, Sand, Lime, and Cement to any point in the South Island. Prices on Application. Post all orders to BOX 590. Dunedin. g T E E L. STEEL. WE CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK OF STRUCTURAL STEEL. ROLLED STEEL JOISTS. CHANNELS, ANGLES, PLATES, REINFORCING BARS. BAR IRON. Etc. QUOTATIONS GIVEN FOR SUPPLIES EX STOCK AND FOR INDENT. THE IRON & STEEL CO., . OF N.Z., LIMITED, Office phone 12-218. Iron Yard 12-973.

ROLLED STEEL JOISTS. LARGE QUANTITY OF EVERY SIZE AND LENGTH KEPT IN STOCK. QUOTATIONS Given For STEEL BEAMS, STEEL AND CASTIRON COLUMNS, also ALL CLASSES OF BUILDERS’ IRONWORK. SPECIALPRESSED MALLEABLE STEEL VERANDAH FRIEZES Supplied to Order. All Depths. JOSEPH SPARROW & SONS, LIMITED, 58 RATTRAY STREET. DUNEDIN. Telegrams: “ Steeljoist.” rpHE DISTINCTION OF HAND--1 MODELLED PLASTER—AT A FRACTION OF THE COST. Ceilings and Walls are decorative opportunities. With WARDROPS FIBROUS PLASTER any room can now acquire new character. All the beauty of hand-modelled plaster—a type of decoration hitherto available only to the very wealthy—is now within the reach of EVERY home. See the exclusive range of designs WARDROPS now make available for you. Phone 23-135 for a repre86IVARDROPS FIBROUS PLASTER CO., LTD., Wilkie road, Dunedin. A PPROVED by. all who wish the “ Best ” in a good job. Cheapest in the end. LYSAGHT’S ORB BRAND CORRUGATED IRON

Write JOHN LYSAGHT, LTD., Box 341, Wellington, for free copy of their Pocket Hand Book, rjpo CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. JAMES ANDERSON and JAMES M KAY beg to announce they have taken over the well-known TIMBER BUSINESS of H. V. HADDOCK. LTD., and trust, by prompt attention to orders, to merit a continuance of the support accorded to the above firm. Large Stocks of all classes of Building Material, including Blue Gum, Hobart Palings, Oregon, Sash Material, etc Dry Run Dressed Lines a specialty. We pupply direct from our Mills or Yard, and guarantee prompt delivery. ‘KAY’S CONTRACTING . AND CARRYING SERVICE. All Classes of Contracting and Heavy Haulage undertaken with a Fleet of Reliable LORRIES and EXPERIENCED [MEN. Anyone wanting Sections Filled, (Sand or Clay, prices reasonable. Phone 23-292. Phone 23-292. \ J. H. M‘KAY Proprietor, 28 Burnett street. Caversbam jOLT• E Z A. ' The liquid tool that aids the Wrench. 3s a tin. Wonderful results. 1 ' Manufactured by W. G. De MENT & CO., 340 Moray place, Dunedin. .Archfcologiets of Essex are interested in tlwv discovery near Margarctting, CholmsfoS.fi, of 32 Roman bronze coins. Four of (lid coins are of the London mint, two of the (Colchester, the remainder varying in mi| it marks. Tins hoard of coins was olnj iously placed at Margarctting in the veij v early part of Garausiuss reign. Can ffiisins was the first to open a Roman milt t in Britain, and Allectus followed his exaj nplc. So did Constantine the Great, who) sc mother ■ was Helena, patron saint of C ! olchester. The great hoard of 29,800 coin 3 discovered in 1872 near Wolmer, beta -ecu Lisa and Alton, Hampshire, on the! estate of the Earl of Selborne, was prol) ably Allectus’s military chest. W hen the Great Western Railway expresi i was speeding to Birmingham recent! y, a woman discovered she had lost a valul ible ring, and informed the guard. The 1 guard immediately wrote out an “ S.Q is.” and, leaning out of the window as tl| e train was going at over a mile a minuite past Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, caugli t the eye of the signalman, to whom he tl) rew the message. The signalman pickejl.up the message and telephoned to Beaccj nsfield. The signalman there telephono d to Paddington, and the statioumastfSr .had a search made. The ring was found! in the women’s waiting room at Paddllpftton. Its owner had taken it oft’ to wiUfti her hands, and forgotten to put it on ,(again.