Foundations:-Contract,

Concrete and asphalt floor of basement,

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POST OFFICE.

APPROXIMATE FINAL STATEMENT OF COST, 9TH NOVEMBER, 1911.

I.

Estimate of cost of building contained in Director 'of Public Works' letter of 22nd May, 1905.

(Vide para. 10 of Explanatory Statement of Increase of Cost.)

Extra depth of piling, &c.,

$

$

$

134.000

13,000

21,000

168,000

Superstructure,-Messrs. D. R. & G.'s Estimate,.

620,000

750

Heating Apparatus,-

do.

do.,

Electric Lighting,-

do.

do.,

10,000

250

Electric Bells,-

do.

do.,

950

Lightning Conductors,—

do.

do.,

Lifts,

do.

do.,

8,500

Drainage,-

do.

do.,

Sanitary Fittings,—

do.

do.,

500 4,000

500

Water Supply,-

do.

do.,

Post Office Fittings & Con-

tingecies,-

do.

do..

2,500

815,950

II.

Amounts subsequently added.

Superstructure, Excess of accepted tender (26.7.05) over

Messrs. D. R. & G.'s Estimate,

13,900

Clock Tower,-Messrs. D. R. & G.'s Estimate of 16.10.05,

32,000

Do., Revised Estimate by P.W.D.,-Excess over

Messrs. D. R. & G.'s Estimate,

23,150

Architects' Commission,

44,250

Miscellaneous,.

750

114,050

Amount appearing in Estimates for 1907 and subsequent

years,

930,000

III.

Further Amounts found necessary to complete building.

$

Foundations, actual cost,

168,840*

Deduct amount in 1,

168,000

840

Superstructure,actual cost,..

685,095

Deduct amounts in I & II, ($620,000+ $13,900),

633,900

51,195

Heating Apparatus,-revised estimate,.

3,300

Deduct amount in 1,

750

2,550

Electric Lighting,-actual cost,

15,260

Deduct amount in I,

10,000

5,260

Lightning Conductors,--actual cost,.........

2,485

Deduct amount in I,

950

1,485

Lifts (3 installed instead of 2 as originally estimated

for), actual cost,

17,000

Deduct amount in 1,

8,500

8,500

Carried forward,

* Includes a sum of $3,388 for alterations necessitated by the addition of a Clock Tower.

$ 69,830 $930,000-

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