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SANITARY DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 188.-It is hereby notified that tenders will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office until Noon of Tuesday, the 27th September, 1910, for limewashing floors and backyards in tenement houses at the option of the respective owners within the City of Victoria and Old Kowloon for a period of 15 months from 1st October, 1910, to the 31st December, 1911.
The limewashing of a floor includes the walls of each room and staircase, all cubicle partitions, stair-casings and stair-linings, all ceilings and the underside of roof both in main buildings, offices and servants' quarters and inclusive of verandahs. The backyard must have its containing walls limewashed up to the level of the first floor. Carved, painted or polished woodwork in good condition, however, need not be limewashed, but must be cleansed.
Alternative tenders are required one for the work to be done with limewash containing not less than 85 per cent. of caustic lime and the other for the work to be done with any other first class limewash.
The limewashing will have to be done in the Eastern division of the City and the Eastern division of Kowloon during the months of October and November, in the central division of the City and the Western division of Kowloon during the months of December and January and in the Western division of the City during the months of February and March,
Tenderers must produce a receipt that they have deposited in the Treasury the sum of fifty dollars as a pledge of the bona fides of their tender, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown, if any tenderer fails or refuses to carry out his tender, should the same have been accepted.
For full particulars apply at the Office of the Secretary to the Sanitary Board,
"Beaconsfield",
For form of tender apply at the Colonial Secretary's Office.
The successful tenderer will be required to sign a formal contract containing conditions to be prescribed by the Board and also to give security by two sureties to the satisfaction of His Excellency the Governor in the sum of $500; failing compliance with these requirements the sum deposited with the tender will be forfeited.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
9th September, 1910.
E. D. C. WOLFE, Head of the Sanitary Department.
SUPREME COurt.
No. S. 189.—The Offices of the Supreme Court will be open daily during the Long Vacation, except upon public holidays, from 10 o'clock in the forenoon until 1 o'clock in the afternoon, (subject, however, to the provisions of Section 5 of the Supreme Court (Vacation) Ordinance, 1898," so far as it relates to the Criminal Sessions) from the 20th day of September, 1910, until the 17th day of October, 1910, (both days inclusive).
9th Sentember. 1910.
J. H. KEMP, Registrar.