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Contract No. 3.

The manufacture of the Cable in every stage, as well as the materials and com- pounds used therein, shall be of the best, and be satisfactory to the Engineer.

The sections of the Cable under manufacture shall be handed over for daily test- ing to the Engineer, with a memorandum for each, showing the numbers, weights, and lengths of the coils jointed on during the previous twenty-four hours, the total length in circuit, and the length completed, and sufficient time shall be given for proper and satisfactory tests to be taken.

Every nautical mile of Cable shall be carefully marked with a lead tally, on which the number is stamped, and securely fixed at the end of each mile.

The Cable, when manufactured, shall be coiled in suitable water-tight tanks, re- osiving at the same time a good coating of whitewash, and shall be kept as far as prac- ticable constantly under water.

A separate and convenient room for testing the Core and Cable,, with instruments and batteries, is to be provided by the Contractors at their works for the Engineer's Electrician, and free access to the works is to be given to the Engineer or his represen- tative, and also every facility for testing and examining the Cable and materials.

The Cable shall be shipped from the Contractors' works direct into the tanks of the ship. It shall receive at the same time a thorough coating of chalk and water.

The vessel on which the Cable is shipped for transport shall not leave her moorings until the Cable has been tested from the shore by the Engineer or his representative to his satisfaction, and ample time shall be allowed after the completion of the shipment for this purpose.

During the transport the Cable shall as far as practicable be kept under water, and tested each day by the Contractors' Electricians, and a complete copy of the tests shall be supplied to the Engineer.

No damaged Cable shall be laid, and the Engineer shall be entitled to refuse to allow any portion of the Cable to be laid which in his opinion is damaged and unfit for use.

The electrical condition of every portion of the Cable when manufactured and of the entire Cable when shipped, and also of the completed Cable when laid, shall be such as having regard to its previous condition, and making due allowance for the mean actual temperature of the water, as shown by the resistance of the Conductor, 'to give no good grounds for believing that any fault exists in the Insulator or Conductor.

H. A. TAYLOR,

PACIFIC CABLE.

SECTIONS :-

FIJI-NORFOLK ISLAND,

NORFOLK ISLAND -QUEENSLAND,

ISLAND-NEW ·

ZEALAND

NORFOLK

April 6, 1900.

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