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On the late of April, 1905, the Sanitary Board submitted a recommendation based on reports by the Government Analyst and Bacteriologist, for the substitution of Calvert's Carbolated Creosote for Jeyes Fluid, the price of the former being quoted at only 1s. 6d. a gallon. This recommendation was approved, and on the 10th July, 1905, a letter was addressed to the Crown Agents requesting that a quotation might be obtained from Messrs. P. C. Calvert and Company for their Carbolated Creosote in accordance with a specification which was forwarded with the letter. After some correspondence the Crown Agents wrote under date of the 31st May, 1906, enclosing a communication from the firm explaining that owing to want of uniformity in the method of testing disinfectants the specification sent from the Colony could not be satisfactorily complied with. This matter was then allowed to drop.
In the meantime Messrs. Snowdon Song and Company on May 24th, August 4th, and November 24th, 1905, and on February 23rd, and May 4th, 1906, had repeated their solicitation for orders, and on the 12th May, 1906, had at the request of this Government despatched