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WORK | ACCEPTED | DECLINED

Great North Road, north of boundary of New River Hundred: length, 1800 cubic yards or thereabouts; construction of 3 bridges and culverts; cutting outfall and approaches; siting outfall and side drains.

Thomas Smith & Co.: bridges, £30 each; outfall drains, £3 each; side drains, 10s. per chain; formation of road and gravelling to be found, £8 per chain.

Peter Larsen: whole work 2/6 0 0
James Hay: - - - - 2/10 0 0
John Lindsay: - - - 2/6 4 0
M’Neil & Wilson: side drains, £5 per chain; approaches, 15s. per chain; meadow burn, £50; do., No. 2, £12; approaches to both, £8 per chain; do., No. 3, £14; approaches, £4 per chain.

Campbellton Road, Mokomoko Range: earthworks, etc.; viz., cutting 17,000 cubic yards or thereby on the North and South slopes of hill, sited estimated to contain 8000 cubic yards; partly constructing 2 culverts of rubble stone; covering 7 chains of roadway with Manuka metal, 1 foot thick; forming, ditching, and metalling 187 chains of roadway; construction of a pile bridge of 2 bays, 5 stone culverts, and 2 timber do.

None - Advertisement of contract withdrawn in consequence of an alteration in the specification, arising from a diminution of the quantity of work required to be executed.

Tenders were received from the following persons:

• C. H. Hildebrandt, Dunedin: John Prosser & Co., Dunedin
• Pearce & Packham, Dunedin: J. H. Lawyer
• Dunnett & Co.: Charles Brown
• James & Co., Dunedin, and one or two others.

Campbellton Road, Mokomoko Range: earthworks, etc., viz., cuttings on hill about 30 chains in length in all, estimated to contain 8000 cubic yards, partly stone; constructing 2 culverts of rubble stone; covering 7 chains of roadway with Manuka metal, 1 foot thick, and forming thereof; and for 18 chains at the south end of bush, with material from cuttings; metalling the whole length with stone from the cuttings, broken to pass through a 3 inch ring.

Greville, Whiting & Co., £2925.

John Campbell & Co. - £4245 0 0
James Burns - 3950 0 0
P. Wakefield - 3660 12 6
Alexander Cairns - 3513 18 0
Pearce and Packham - 3434 15 0
James M’Kenzie - 3200 0 0
M’Neil & Wilson - 3100 5 0
James Robertson - 2800 0 0
Robert M’Intosh, cutting per cubic yard, 6s. 6d.; side drains; bankments per chain, £1 15s.; do. (in cuttings), £1; 2 culverts, £53; foundations of do., per cubic yard, 2s.; Manuka fascines, per chain, £4 15s.; breaking metal, per cubic yard, 3s. 4d.; deepening and widening drains, per chain, 14s. 6d.; cutting and clearing stumps, £1 19s. 6d.; removing loose or peaty soil, per cubic yard, 1s. 8d.

100 sheep hurdles delivered at Manning and Whitton, 9s. 6d. each.

John Rose, each - £3 4 0
William Gunn, do. - 1 1 0
Rose and Gunn, do. - 1 3 0
James Monaghan, William Douglas (the whole) - 90 4 0

Great North Road, north of Winter Bush: Construction of 2 bridges and approaches; cutting outfall and sidedrains.

John Millington and Co., 1st bridge and approaches, £298; 2nd do., £95; drains, £1 per chain.

Peter Larsen, bridges, £217; drains, per chain, £1; forming do., £1; approaches, 2s. 4d. per cubic yard. M’Neil and Wilson, bridges each £95; forming road, per chain, £1 10s.; drains, £1; approaches, £5 each.

Thomas Smith & Co., bridges each £110; drains, per chain, £1; forming do., £1; approaches, do., £5.

William Boyd and Co., whole works - £626.

John Campbell and Co. - £391 0 0
J. and T. Deans - 374 0 0
R. Muir and Co. - 350 0 0