CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887 — Page 43

Estimated at £5948.

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2. As regards the question of supply of bement for this work, which our attention is specially called in your letter under reference, I have to point out that the necessity. for purchasing Cement locally. arose from the early commencement the working season and would have been avoided if the Surveyor General fiad allowed, in forwarding his indent, for so probable contingency. There has undoubtedly been, in addition, delay in the

of

arrival

of

the cement indented for,

due, as explained in our letter

of

the

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unsatisfactory manner in which the contract has been exccuted by the firm for whose cement the. Surveyor General has expressed a preference. We have fortunately been able to make good the metalments, to a considerable extent, by

ament from other

diverting

contracts, and we hope that the

the works has not been

progress of

materially retarded. It is however recessary that the Surveyor General should bear in mind when preparing.

his midents that, even with the

· best makers, failures

are possible and that the cement intended

for a particular instalment may

have

e'l

urg