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PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
No. S. is hereby notified that sealed tenders in triplicate, which should be clearly marked "Tender for Explosives", will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office until Noon of Monday, the 6th day of December, 1926, for the supply and delivery of the following Stores required by this Government, for the year 1927:
1. No. 1 Dynamite, (75%).
2. Geligaite, (58%).
3. F.F. Gunpowder, Blasting.
4. No. 3A. Detonators.
5. No. 6 Detonators.
6. Electrical Detonators.
7. Fuse, Safety, Black double-wove.
Each Tenderer must produce with each tender a receipt that he has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of Dollars One hundred ($100), as a pledge of the bona fides of his tender, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown, should the tenderer refuse or fail to carry out to the satisfaction of the Government, the whole or any portion of the tender or tenders, which may be accepted. The deposit will be returned to any tenderer whose tender is not accepted.
For form of tender and further particulars apply at this Office.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
26th November, 1926.
No. S. 345.
HAROLD T. CREASY,
Director of Public Works.
NOTICES TO MARINERS.
With reference to Notice to Mariners No. S. 340 dated 15th November, 1926, H.M.S. Iroquois reports having laid beacons in positions :-
(a) 343°-57 miles from Gap Rock Lighthouse. (b). 348° 2.2 miles from Gap Rock Lighthouse.
HONG KONG, 24th November, 1926.
G. F. HOLE,
Harbour Master, &e.
No. 16 of 1926.
CEYLON.
West Coast-Colombo Approaches.
1. The position of the Victory Monument is incorrectly shown on Admiralty Chart 3686; the correct bearing and distance from the Clock Tower Lighthouse is 166°, 4005 feet, (6-62 cables).
2. The dome of the New Town Hall should be inserted on Admiralty Chart 3686 in the list of objects conspicuous to the Navigator; bearing and distance from the Clock Tower Lighthouse is 1324-17 cables.
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