✨ Thistle Eradication Contract
AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Vol. IX.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1861. [No. 9.
THISTLES.
Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 18th March, 1861.
TENDERS will be received at this Office until noon of Tuesday, the 26th of March, instant, from persons willing to Contract for eradicating and destroying all noxious Thistles growing upon any Waste Lands of the Crown, lands belonging to the Aboriginal Natives, and on any public Road or Reserve within one or more of the several Sub-districts hereinafter described, from 1st April, till 31st December 1861, inclusive.
No. 2, Mount Albert.
On the N. by the Waitemata Harbour; on the E. by the middle of the Epsom Road from Mechanics’ Bay, Southward to Onehunga to the beach at Commercial Hotel (not to include the Government Domain); on the South by the Manukau Harbour; on the West by the Wahu Portage and Wahu Creek.
No. 4, Orakei
On the N. by the Sea, Waitemata Harbour; on the East by the Tamaki to Point England Road; on the S. by the ... of the Point England, St. John’s College, and Auckland roads to Newmarket, by the middle of Parnell road to Mechanics’ Bay.
No. 5, Otahuhu and Mangarei.
On the N. by the Hundred of Howick down Otara Creek to the Tamaki, crossing the Tamaki to Otahuhu by the Otahuhu Portage, and by the Manukau harbour; on the W. and S. by the Manukau, to the S.E. boundary of Clendon’s Grant; on the S.E. and E. by the boundary of Clendon’s Grant, and by the boundary of the Hundred of Otahuhu.
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.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any of the tenders sent in.
All contract bonds must be signed by the contractor and his sureties before the date of entering upon the contracts.
J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1861, No 9
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🌾 Tenders for Eradication of Noxious Thistles
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources18 March 1861
Thistles, Eradication, Contract, Waste Lands, Crown Lands, Aboriginal Natives, Public Roads, Reserves, Mount Albert, Orakei, Otahuhu, Mangarei
- J. Williamson, Superintendent