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Appendix No. 22.
Public Works DepartmeNT,
HONGKONG, 30th December, 1901.
SIR, I have the honour to supply as requested a list showing the different firms who have supplied the Public Works Department through the Crown Agents for the Colonies. The list covers approximately the last ten years, and shows that the Crown Agents have carried out for this Department the delivery of 379 orders. The 379 orders were placed with 101 different firms as follows :
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In 1894, the purchase of stores locally amounted to $8,892, and had risen in 1900 to $38,295. In 1894, the purchase of stores through the Crown Agents for the Colonies was $94,176, and in 1900 had fallen to $90,454.
DAVID WOOD,
Superintendent of Accounts, Correspondence and Stores.
E. D. C. WOLFE, ESQ.
Secretary, Public Works Commission.
Appendix No. 23.
HONOURABLE DIRECTOR PUBLIC WORKS,
Mr. Ormsby, by Public Works Office letter No. 59 of 26th January, 1898, and ac- companying Indent No. 2 of 1898, requisitioned for three hundred (300) tons of Port- land Cement. Copy of letter and indent herewith.
It would appear that when the advice arrived in the Colony it was forwarded to the Praya Reclamation where they knew nothing about it, as no record of the order was in that office.