Otago Provincial Gazette – 1862 – No. 205

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✨ Telegraph Agreement



OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON, Superintendent.

Vol. V.] WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1862. [No. 205.

TELEGRAPH.

ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT

made and entered into this sixteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two Between RICHARD WOOLLEY and MATTHEW MITCHELL of Melbourne in the Colony of Victoria and of Dunedin in the Province of Otago New Zealand contractors and carpenters carrying on business under the style or firm of RICHARD WOOLLEY & COMPANY of the one part and His Honor JOHN LARKINS CHEESE RICHARDSON Superintendent of the Province of Otago of the other part:

WHEREAS the Provincial Government of Otago are desirous of establishing a line of Telegraph between Dunedin Port Chalmers and the Heads And whereas the said parties hereto have mutually agreed with each other that the said Telegraph should be erected and worked by the said parties hereto of the first part on the terms and for the period hereinafter provided Now these presents

witness that in pursuance of the said agreement the said Richard Woolley and Matthew Mitchell for themselves their heirs executors administrators and assigns all hereinafter designated the contractors and the said John Larkins Cheese Richardson for himself and his successors Superintendents of the said Province hereinafter designated the Superintendent do hereby mutually covenant and agree to and with each other in manner following that is to say:

  1. The contractors shall within two months from the date hereof at their sole cost and expense erect and construct a line of Telegraph from Dunedin to Port Chalmers to be connected with and worked from suitable rooms or stations at each terminus to be provided by the Superintendent who shall also provide a room or station at the Heads whenever the Telegraph shall be continued to that place

  2. The said line of Telegraph shall be carried through the Towns of Dunedin and Port Chalmers on posts sawn or otherwise squared and fixed at the outer edge of the footways of the streets through



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🏗️ Articles of Agreement for Telegraph Construction

🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
16 April 1862
Telegraph, Contract, Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Heads, Construction, Agreement
  • Richard Woolley, Contractor for telegraph construction
  • Matthew Mitchell, Contractor for telegraph construction

  • John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Superintendent of the Province of Otago