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-