BRIDGE OVER THE WAIWAKAIHO RIVER.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
New Plymouth, New Zealand,
24th October, 1857.

PROSPECTUS of a Bridge to be built over the River Waiwakaiho in the Province of New Plymouth, and conditions upon which the Premiums offered for designs will be awarded.

The Bridge may be of Iron or Wood, or of part Iron and part Wood.

[Note.—The water ways should be 152 feet wide in the aggregate, and the first span from the west bank should not be less than 120 feet in the clear, as large timber is frequently brought down in the freshets.]

The Bridge must have a footpath of four feet in width on each side with a space between, for roadway, of not less than fifteen feet. It must be strong enough to sustain the weight of a drove of cattle, and also the lateral pressure of the strong South East winds which sweep down the valley of the river. And it must be adapted for the site, drawings, sections, and particulars of which are annexed hereto.

The site is about two miles from the Landing Place, and the road thereto good.

The greatest velocity of the stream in floods is from eight to nine miles per hour in the middle of the current.

The materials available in the locality are timber of a good description in all scantlings required, and good working stone.

The district is occasionally subject to slight earthquakes.

The cost must not exceed £1500 for a Wood Bridge or £2000 for an Iron Bridge including the abutments and the immediate approaches thereto.

All Designs are to be accompanied by a clear and comprehensive Specification, and a detailed Estimate of the cost of erecting and completing the work.

The Drawings must comprise Plans, Longitudinal and Transverse Sections and Elevations, also sufficiently enlarged drawings of parts to make the design explanatory. The Plans to be drawn to a scale of 10 feet to an inch, Elevations and Sections 5 feet to an inch.

No Design or Specification shall bear any signature or other description of the competitor, but there shall be inscribed thereon some character, motto, or device, which character, motto, or device, shall, together with the name and address of the competitor, be also inscribed on a separate sheet of paper, and enclosed in a sealed envelope addressed to me at this Office, and endorsed “Design for Bridge over the River Waiwakaiho.”

All the Designs and Specifications will be forwarded to Colonel Mould, R.E., who will decide upon the most eligible. A Premium of Forty Pounds will be given for the most eligible design, and a premium of Twenty Pounds for the next.

The Provincial Government reserves to itself the right to withhold either the one or both premiums should the designs not be judged suitable for the purpose required.

The correctness of the Estimates will be considered in awarding the Premiums, and no premium will be awarded for any design, whatever may be the amount of the Estimate, if it should be apparent that the real cost would much exceed the respective amounts of £1500 and £2000.

If any two designs should appear to be equally eligible, the least expensive will be preferred.

When Colonel Mould shall have decided as to the eligibility of the designs, the envelopes accompanying the designs will be opened, and the premiums paid to the successful competitors.

The designs, &c. approved of will become the property of the Provincial Government, and the others will be returned to their respective owners with as little delay as possible.

Further particulars, if required, may be obtained on application at this Office.

I. N. Watt,
Provincial Secretary.

Superintendent’s Office Auckland,
2nd Nov., 1857.

THE following Return of the names of all persons to whom Certificates have been issued under the “Naval and Military Scrip Act,” 1856,” from the 1st to 31st Oct., 1857, is published in accordance with the provisions of the said Act.

J. Williamson,
Superintendent.

Printed by W. C. Wilson, for the Provincial Government.