ERECTING BRIDGE AT WYNDHAM
COUNTY COUNCIL ACCEPTS TENDER The tender of W. McLellan, of £7237, for erecting the Mataura river bridge at Wyndham was accepted by the Southland County Council at its meeting yesterday. The engineer (Mr G. R. Milward) said that the total cost of the whole project, including material, was estimated at £16,000. The material was estimated to cost £7790 and, added to this, there would be an extra £1573 for the approach work, the purchase of land, legislation, and guard fences. The Main Highways Board would support the council in accepting the tender. The tender of Taylor Bros, of £155 for gravelling on Hewitson road, Morton Mains, was accepted. The same tenderer’s figure of £377 for supplying stone chips from the Oreti river at the Iron Bridge for Dunn’s highway was accepted.
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Southland Times, Issue 24249, 5 October 1940, Page 7
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135ERECTING BRIDGE AT WYNDHAM Southland Times, Issue 24249, 5 October 1940, Page 7
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