✨ Tenders for Provincial Supplies
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TENDERS.
Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 19th November, 1863.
TENDERS will be received at this office until noon of Wednesday, the 9th day of December next, for furnishing the Provincial Government with the undermentioned supplies, in such quantities as may be required, during the six months commencing the 1st January, 1864, upon the conditions hereinafter specified.
Separate tenders to be sent in for each service. Information may be obtained at this Office.
FIREWOOD—TEA TREE.
Of the usual lengths.
Lengths, cut and split to suit office fireplaces.
Tenders to state the price per ton at which the above will be delivered at the Gaol, the Hospital, the Lunatic Asylum, Stockade, (Mount Eden) and the several public offices.
CONVICT RATIONS.
Best
Ordinary } delivered at Mount Eden Gaol.
Solitary }
HARD LABOUR RATIONS.
Best
Ordinary } delivered at the Auckland or
Solitary } Mount Eden Gaols, as may be required.
LOCK-UP RATIONS.
Delivered at the Auckland Lock-up.
The above-mentioned rations must be delivered at the Auckland and Mount Eden Gaols by ½-past 6 o’clock each morning, or the Gaoler will purchase at the expense of the Contractor.
N.B.—The Tenders for the Convict and Hard Labour Rations will be considered together, and the contract will be given to the same person.
PRISON SUPPLIES.
Straw, at per ton of 2,240 lbs.
Oil, at per gallon.
Cotton wick, at per lb.
Delivered at the Auckland or Mount Eden Gaols, as may be required.
POLICE.
Oil, at per gallon.
Cotton wick, at per lb.
RATIONS FOR DESTITUTE PERSONS.
Consisting of Bread 1½ lb, Meat (free from bone) ½ pound, at per ration.
PROVISIONS FOR PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL AND LUNATIC ASYLUM.
The articles to be delivered at the Hospital and Lunatic Asylum, at the expense of the contractor, and to be subject to the approval of the Provincial Surgeon as to quality.
Fresh beef } to be free
Fresh mutton } from bone
Fine bread
Potatoes, butter
Tea and sugar, No. 1 Company’s
Oatmeal
Treacle
Arrowroot, fine flour
Pearl barley
Sago, suet
Rice, tobacco
Salt, pepper
Soap, whiting
Mixed vegetables
Mould candles
Eggs, per dozen
Fowls, each
Brandy, port wine, sherry, } at per two
Porter, gin } gallons.
Milk and vinegar, at per quart
Oil, at per gallon
Cotton wick, at per lb.
Straw, at per ton of 2,240 lbs.
Samples of the tea, sugar, and candles, to be submitted with the tenders.
Information may be obtained from the Provincial Surgeon.
MEDICINES FOR THE USE OF THE PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL, LUNATIC ASYLUM, GAOL, AND STOCKADE.
A list of the medicines to be tendered for may be seen at this office. Tenders must be made out in accordance therewith.
TIMBER.
Of such kinds and sizes as may be required.
Information can be obtained at the “Roads Office.”
PAPER.
Demy, Blotting, per ream
Cartridge, per ream
Blue laid demy, per ream
Ditto, ruled faint lines, ditto
Foolscap, best hand made, 19 lbs. per ream
Ditto, ditto, ruled faint per ream
2nd, machine made, 16 and 14 lbs., per ream
16 lb. ruled
Writing, double foolscap, per ditto, weight to be stated.
Printing, ditto ditto ditto
Demy, ditto ditto
Cream laid 4to letter size, best
Ditto, 8vo, note size, ditto.
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1863, No 33
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💰 Tenders for Provincial Government Supplies
💰 Finance & Revenue19 November 1863
Tenders, Supplies, Firewood, Rations, Prison Supplies, Police, Hospital, Asylum, Medicines, Timber, Paper
- Superintendent’s Office, Auckland