CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12] — Page 284

ar

Connection with its

transit to Hunskug & landing & storage there,

are unable to sell

m ay

favourable terms

their Agents in the Colm

after all contingencies of shipment, landing I storage have been Jaken into account. 8. The only conclusio Lean to be that the Cament, which W=

to

Price proposes purchase, is not

of the same

qualit

as that supplied by the Agents, best in podat the so called Cement

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9. I may inform you that

Messrs. White's Cement

Gram has in another Colony, been recently compared with

that shipped by the Agents;

the former investigation proved

to

and on

S.

2/05/

to have cost from 2/%1⁄2

4

a

barrel more

although

the latter, alth

than

Contained 374ths.

the barrels w

of Cement mistead of 400th. and no information procurable as to whether

it had been obtained under or profondy textes. - proper specification

tas if we tarber afflies kfb the scultar or after dubjected to any tests. th