TENDERS ACCEPTED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21531, 19 December 1939, Page 5

TENDERS ACCEPTED

PUBLIC WORKS IN CANTERBURY ' I Works scheduled for Canterbury re I included in a list of tenders passed Dy the Public Works Department and published in the Gazette. Among the works shortly to be put in hand are: Hinds River bridge £4495; Hawkins River bridge. £4546; short-course accommodation block .it I Lincoln College, £6895; sealing sections of Inangahua-Greymouth highway. £8927; reconstruction and sealing of highway between Kirwee and Racecourse Hill, £19.246; glasshouse for Wheat Research Institute at Lincoln. £962; reconstruction and sealing of Cain’s Road between Rangitata and Geraldine. £l3 191; nreparation and sealing Inangahua-Westport highway. £4438: sealing of Timaru-Milton-Crom-well-Queenstown highway. £10,331; Waimate Police Station. £897. INSTITUTE OF VALUERS FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE At the first annual conference of the New Zealand Institute of Valuers, held at Wellington, Mr N. H. Mackie presided. It was reported that the membership of the Institute was nearly 350 and that branches had been established with headquarters at Auckland. Palmerston North. Wellington. Christchurch, Timaru, Dunedin and Invercargill. It was decided that members on military service should be exempt from payment of fees if in receipt of military pay only. Progress in the matter of establishing libraries was reported, and it was resolved that Lincoln College and Auckland University College examinations on valuing should be accepted as a qualification for associate membership of the institute. Financial provision was made for the establishment of statistical bureaux in respect of urban and rural records. ENDS NIGHT ANNOYANCE There’s nothing ends annoying night coughing as quickly as Baxter’s Lung Preserver. A dose of “Baxter’s” soothes and relieves, and in the case of chest colds quickly reduces congestion ano irritation of the bronchial mem bra neo Ask for "Baxter’s”—best tor coughs and colds—all chemists and stores. 1/6 2/6, 4/6. "Baxter's” has a tonic action too