COUNCIL DISCUSSES TENDERS FOR PUMPS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17879, 22 June 1926, Page 8

COUNCIL DISCUSSES TENDERS FOR PUMPS.

Recently the Reserves Committee of the City Council called for tenders for the supply of four electric pumping sets for use at Din wood, Opawa and Woolston Parks, and Spreydon Domain. Included in the tenders received were two from the Municipal Electricity Department, one for £243 12s 6d and one for £220 12s 6d. The lowest tender was for £l2B 17s, from Messrs Brown Bros. The highest was the one for £243 12s 6d from the department. At last night's meeting of the council the Reserves Committee reported that subsequent to the receipt of the tenders the committee had found it necessary to reduce the number of sets to two. The committee recommended that two sets should be purchased from Messrs Brown Bros, for £64 8s 6d and an undertaking given that the remaining two sets should be purchased from them when required. Councillor A. M’Kellar (chairman of the Electricity Committee) moved that the matter should be referred back to the Reserves Committee on the ground that the pumping sets provided for in the tender of Brown Bros, were not according to specifications. Councillor C. T. Aschman, acting chairman of the Reserves Committee, said he could not see any reason for the matter going back to the committee. The only specifications were that the pumps should be able to do the work and should be of British manufacture. They were getting thst-by accepting the tender of Brown Bros. To reier back a tender of £l2B to consider a tender of £243 was only wasting the time of the committee. Councillor M’Kellar was speaking in the interests of the Municipal Electricity Department. The amendment was lost by eight votes to seven, and the recommenda* tion.of.the committee- yvas-approved, k :