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In the event of a difference of opinion between the Contractor and the Officer receiving the supplies, the same is to be decided, in cases where the article is not of a perishable nature, by a Board of Survey composed of persons named by the Government. If the Board shall decide that the article is not of a proper quality, it must be immediately replaced by the Contractor, failing which it will be procured by the department requiring it, and the expense charged to the Contractor.

In cases where the article is of a perishable nature, or in which, from some other cause, injury would be sustained by waiting for a Board of Survey, the head of the department, or officer in charge, for whom the supplies are to be received, shall have power to reject any article of a quality inferior to the approved sample, and to purchase others at the expense of the Contractor.

In the event of the Contractor for the performance of any work or service being dissatisfied with the decision of the officer in condemning the same, the Superintendent will, upon the written request of the Contractor, made immediately after such decision, and the Superintendent may also, at any time, without such request, summon a Board of Survey to examine any work; and if such Board of Survey shall declare any such work to be inferior in quality to the work contracted for, or otherwise improperly done, the Contractor, upon notice thereof, shall immediately replace such work by other, satisfactory to the Board of Survey; and in default thereof, the Superintendent, or some officer authorized by him in that behalf, is hereby authorized to procure such work to be replaced in any manner he may think fit, and the Contractor shall bear and pay to the Provincial Government all costs, charges, and expenses attendant thereon, as well as any excess of price for the same, together with a sum of money, by way of penalty, equal to one-fourth of such costs, charges, and expenses, and excess of price, all which are hereby made chargeable on any sum which may be due from the Provincial Government to the Contractor.

The tenders (forms of which may be obtained at this Office) to contain the names and places of residence, at length, of the persons tendering, and to be signed by two respectable sureties, engaging to become bound in a penalty of £100 for the fulfilment of the contract if the tender be accepted, and no tenders will be received unless upon such forms.

All contract bonds must be signed by the contractor and his sureties before the date of entering upon the contracts.

No person whatever holding any situation of profit or emolument under Her Majesty’s Government of New Zealand, or under the Government of this Province, shall be a party, directly or indirectly, to any Contract.

J. Williamson,
Superintendent.

PUBLIC SLAUGHTER HOUSE, NEWMARKET.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 18th Nov., 1861.

TENDERS will be received at this Office until noon of Friday, the 13th day of December next, for the Public Slaughter House at Newmarket, for the six months commencing the 1st January, 1862.

Information as to conditions, &c., may be obtained at this Office.

J. Williamson,
Superintendent.

ADDITIONAL LIST OF WHOLESALE LICENSES.

Wholesale Licenses have been issued to the undermentioned persons in conformity with clause 24 of the Licensing Act, 1858:

• Richard O’Sullivan, Parnell.
• Walter Charles Brockenbury, Auckland, Alfred Street, Otahuhu.
• James Oldham, Auckland.

Daniel Pollen,
Provincial Treasurer.

November 18th, 1861.

RETURN of CATTLE SLAUGHTERED in the AUCKLAND DISTRICT,

from 1st to 31st August, 1861 (inclusive).

Joseph Brannan,
Inspector of Slaughterhouses and Brands.