Engineering Notes.

Progress, Volume VII, Issue 2, 1 December 1911, Page 934

Engineering Notes.

■ A -resident engineer is required by the Bluff Harbour Board at a salary of £450 per annum. Applications must be in by Dec. 18. .Representatives are required in Now Zealand by a leading English Company, who manufacture steam turbines, high-speed engines, electrical generating and distributing machinery, etc. Well established engineering firms or machinery importers will have the preference. Apply to Box 665. ITorucastles, Cheapsido, London, England*. Messrs. Briscoe & Co., Ltd., are the accepted tenderers, at a cost of £877 7s. Bd,, for the supply of fittings for the Bell Bead Reservoir for the Wellington City Council. The following were unsuccessful:—Messrs. Richardson, Blair & McCabe, £904; .T. Duthie & Co., £9OB and £IO2O. Messrs. Griffiths & Co., Birchfield (Nelson), are, the accepted tenderers for the construction of a bridge on the Gisborne-Motu railway, at a cost of £1034, for the Public Works Department. The unsuccessful ones were:—Anderson & Co. (Christchurch), £1097; Saunders Bros. (Wellington), £1153; Niven & Co. (Napier), £1226; and I. 11. Adams (Auckland), £1378.

For the construction of a water tunnel, about 7100 feet in length from Lake Coleridge to the Rakaia River. Plans at Public Works Offices, all centres. Tenders close Dec. 15, with Minister for Public Works, Wellington. For the construction of traffic bridge over the Waiapu River, near Port Awanui, for the Waiapu County Council. Plans, etc., at Public Works Offices, Wellington, Napier. Gisborne, Auckland; tenders close December 6th with W. O’Ryan, engineer, Waiapu County Council, Waipiro Bay. For electric Tramways, Lighting and Power .Supply for the borough of Napier. Contract No. 2.-Permanent way, road, and. sewer alterations, overhead construction and supply mains. Contract No. 3. —Power station, car shed, and repair shop equipments. Contract No. 4. Rolling stock. Conditions,, specifications, drawings and bills of quantities may be seen at the Corporation Offices, Napier, and at the office of Mr. F. Black, 41 Ballance Street, Wellington. Copies may be obtained from the undersigned only, upon payment of £5 ss. per set for each contract, which sum will be refunded upon

return of the set accompanied by a tender in proper order. Tenders close at my office on February 7. 1912. M. Murray, Town Clerk, Napier. Poerua Gold Mining Co. require two large filter tanks and three I Oft. by 30ft. agitators. Tenders close Dec. 9. .For the supply and erection of suction gas pumping plant at the pumping station, Beckenham. Christchurch; close January 29th. IT. R. Smith, Town Clerk, Christchurch. For format-on works (five contracts) on the

Westport-luangahua Railway. Specification, etc., may be seen at the Public Works Offices, Wellington, Nelson, Westport, Greymouth. Tenders to be addressed to the Minister for Public Works. Wellington, by Dec. sth. Per repairs to Caisson, Calliope Dock, • Auckland; close Dec. 5. Tenders to Chairman, Auckland Harbour Board. For the supply of cast-iron water mains, valves, specials, etc.; (dose on December 14 with Henry W. Wilson, Town Clerk. Auckland. For the supply of steel water-pipes , and earthenware drainage pipes; close Dec. d at T ov. u Hoard’s office. Kaponga. Specifications at the office and “Herald”' office, Auckland, 11. W. Climie, engineer. Por the construction of a Service Reservoir and Pumping Station, and for laying about 1.1 juries of 9in.. Tin., and -tin. cast-iron water mains with valves, fittings, etc. Drawings and specification with Henry 11. Metcalfe & Son, Palmerston Buildings, Auckland. Tenders close with the Town Clerk, Birkenhead, on Dec. 14. Por the supply and delivery of the following: I. Timber for wharf extension purposes. 2. Pile shoes. 3. Mooring buoys and chains. Further particulars can bo obtained from Mr. H S. Pennell, Secretary. Tender's close Doc. 10, delivered to the office of the Hew Plymouth Harbour Board. Por the manufacture and delivery at Dargavi 11c of Steel and Iron Work for Bridges oh the Ivailur Valley Railway. Drawings, specification, and conditions of contract may bo seen at the Public Works Offices, Auckland. Wellington, and Christchurch. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Tenders ‘dose Doc. Id. R. W. Holmes, Enginn-Chief, Public W orks Office, Wellington.