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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O. 885
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Best English steel beams, 8′′ × 4" to 14′′ × 6′′ in 11 to 15 feet lengths, £9 5s. 6d.
in December, 1900.
Belgian steel beams, from 5′′ × 3′′ to 14′′ × 6" at £5 15s. 6d. per ton.-
July, 1901.
English steel beams, from 8" x 4", £8 2s. 6d. per ton.-July, 1901.. English steel beams, from 12′′ × 5", £71 2s. 6d. per ton.-September, 1901.
Yours, &c.,
A. DENISON.
E. D. C. Wolfe, Esq.,
Secretary to the l'ublic Works Commission.
(No. 145.)
SIR,
I HEREWITH return you Mr. Denison's letter of the 3rd ultimo, and send you, for the information of the Public Works Commission, 6 copies of a Comparative Statement which I have had prepared showing the costs furnished by Mr. Denison in parallel column with the costs of similar materials obtained by this Department through the Crown Agents.
I have, &c.,
Public Works Office, Hong-Kong, February 4, 1902.
E. D. C. Wolfe, Esq.,
Secretary to the Public Works Commission.
W. CHATHAM,
Director of Public Works.
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT of Cost of MATERIALS OBTAINED FROM ENGLAND BY PRIVATE FIRMS IN THE Colony AND BY THE GOVERNMENT.
Prices of goods obtaine I through Crown Agents,
Prices supplied by Mr. A. Denisou.
F.D.B. in English Ports.
August, 1892, Cast iron columns: 10 to 15 ft. long 6 to 7 diameter; 5 to 8 cwts, vachi, tis.
per cwt.
August, 1892. Wrought iron roof principals 50 and
20 ft, spans, 168, 477, per cwt,
August, 1892, Wrought iron bolts and nuts 1
diameter, 138. per cwt.
August, 1892, Freight on above, 30s, per ton. July, 1901, Belgian steel joists 5' ×3 to 14′′ ×4",
45 158 6d, per ton.
July, 1901, English steel joists 8 ×4, £$ 28, 6d.
per ton.
September, 1901, English steel joists 12 ×5.
£7 12s. 6d. per rot.
December, 1895, Belgian steel joists 5 x2, in
17 ft. lengths, 44 178, tit, per ton. June, 1897, English steel joists 12′′×5, in 17 to
20 ft, lengths, £6 178, 6d; per ton.
January, 1899, English steel joists 12 × 6,-in
24 ft. lengths, £7 78, 67, per ton,
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December, 1990, English steel joists 8×I to
14x6, in 11 to 15 ft. lengths, 49 58, 67. per !
ton.
F.O.B. in English Ports.
July, 1892, Cast iron columns; 19 fr. long: 10 to 12 diameter; 21] cwts, cach, Tx. Bd. per ewt.
July, 1892, Wrought iron roof principals, 50 ft.
spans, Bs. Pd. per ewt.
July, 1892, Wrought iron bolts and nuts varying
sizes, 8 x 1 to 2] × ], £1 2% per cwt,
July, 1892, Freight on abovë, 13s, to £1 5s, per
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November, 1901, Euglish steel joists 18 ×ī, in
33 ft. lengthis, Ai per ton.
November, 1990). English steel joists 5 ×
to
15 × 6, in 17 to 35 ft. lengilis, E6 por tón, May, 1898, English steel joists 3×3 to 15 x6′′,
in 16 to 36 ft. Jengtlis, £5 16s, 6d, per ton. February, 1900, English steel joists 5" × 3 to 13 × 5, in 20 to 36 4. lengilis, £8 98, 9 per
Tall.
March, 1990, English steel joists 15 26', in 24 to
28 ft. lengths, £8 24. 67, per ton, November, 1900, English steel joists 174 × 63', in
33 ft. lengths, £7 17%, per ton. November, 1000, English steel joists S×5
13 ft. lengths, £7 12%. 67. per ton.
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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.
E. D. C. Wolfe, Esq.,
DAVID WOOD,
Superintendent of Accounts, Correspondence and Stores.
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) accompanying Indent No. 2 of 1898, requisitioned for three hundred (300) tons of Portland 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.
The cement should have been ordered by and recorded in the letter book, &c., of the Praya Reclamation, and not the Public Works Department. The cement arrived
in the months of June and September, 1898, and was taken delivery of by the Praya Reclamation.
This was the only consignment of Cement ordered or received by the Praya Reclamation or the Public Works Department during Mr. Ormsby's term of office
in the Colony,―i.e., 19th October, 1897–12th March, 1901.
Herewith copies of letter and indent.
January 13, 1902.
CHAIRMAN, Public Works Commission,
DAVID WOOD.
WITH reference to your enquiries regarding a consignment of cement, which the Crown Agents are reported to have sent to this Department without having received any order to do so, the facts of the case are as stated in the above Minute. As only one consignment of cement was ordered or received during Mr. Ormsby's term of office, there is no room for
any doubt on the subject.
W. CHATHAM,
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NÓT TO
Appendix No. 22.
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 Colonics. 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:--
I'ublic Works Department, Hong-Kong, December 30, 1901.
January 13, 1902.
(No. 59.)
SIR,
CEMENT FOR 1898.
Director Public Works.
January 26, 1898.
I HAVE the honour to represent that our probable requirements in Cement this year, over and above the quantity now contracted for with the Green Island
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