FIREWOOD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, June 11th, 1849.

TENDERS in duplicate will be received at this office, until noon on Monday, 25th instant, from parties who may be desirous of furnishing supplies of Firewood for the various departments of this Government, for the ensuing six months, commencing 1st July next.

Tenders to specify the rate for supplying Firewood of the usual size; and also for supplying any portion that may be required to be cut and split of a size to suit the fire places in the public offices.

Security will be required for the due performance of the Contract, and the Tenders should be accompanied by a notification of the consent of the parties who may be proposed as sureties.

Tenders to be sealed, and endorsed “Tender for Firewood.”

By His Excellency’s command,
Andrew Sinclair,
Colonial Secretary.

CONTRACTS FOR COLONIAL SERVICE FOR 1849.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, June 11th, 1849.

TENDERS will be received at this office, until noon on Monday, the 25th instant, for furnishing for the Colonial Service, the undermentioned supplies, in such quantities as may be required during the six months commencing 1st July, 1849, upon the conditions hereinafter specified:

SADDLERY, &c. – Breechings, each; brushes, water, each; ditto, body, each; collars, horse, each; combs, curry, each; ditto, mane, each; grease, cart, per lb.; harness, shaft, per set; ditto, leading, per set; harness, per pair; head stalls, each; saddles, cart, each; tar, per gallon.

IRONMONGERY – Axes, carpenters’, each; ditto, pick, each; brads, flooring, per lb.; hammers, stone, steeled, each; hooks, fern, each; hinges, butt, 3 in. and 4 ½, per pair; ditto, rising butt, per pair; ditto, T, per pair; locks, mortice, each; ditto, rim, each; ditto, pad, each; nails, spike, per lb.; ditto, weatherboard, per lb.; ditto, shingle, per lb.; ditto, paling, per lb.; ditto, copper sheathing, per lb.; rakes (large for roads), each; shovels, each; spades, each; screws of sizes, per 100.

TIMBER, KAURI – Boards, at per 100 feet; scantling, 4 in. by 3 in., per 100 feet; ditto, 6 in. by 3 in., per 100 feet; paling, broad, 5 feet, per 100; ditto, narrow, 5 feet, per 100; posts and rails, 8 feet, per 100.

MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES – Blocks, single and double, per inch; bricks, per 1000; brooms, hair, each; brushes, scrubbing, each; buckets, water, each; bunting, red, white, yellow, blue, per yard; canvas of sizes, per bolt; carts, hand, each; copper sheathing, per lb.; glue, per lb.; lime, per bushel; oars, per foot; oil, black, linseed, and boiled, per gallon; paint, black, green, yellow, blue, and white, lead, per lb.; rope of sizes, per cwt.; tar, coal, per gallon; twine, sail, per lb.; wheel-barrows, each; whiting, per lb.

CONDITIONS:

Samples of the various articles will have to be submitted for inspection.

The contractors will be required to deliver the different supplies from time to time, at such places, and in such quantities, as may be indicated by the Colonial Secretary.

The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any of the tenders sent in.

Payment for any of the above supplies will be made at the end of each month.

Tenders to be in duplicate, sealed, and endorsed “Tender for Supply of Stores.”

In the event of a difference of opinion between the contractor and the officer receiving the supplies, as to the quality, 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, according to the practice of the service.

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 such article or articles as are of inferior quality to the samples approved, and to purchase others at the expense of the contractor.

The tenders to contain the names of the tenderers and their places of residence at length, and to be accompanied by a letter signed by two respective sureties, engaging to become bound in a penalty of £100 for the due fulfillment of the contract, if the tender be accepted.

By His Excellency’s command,
Andrew Sinclair,
Colonial Secretary.