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With respect to the cost of supplying the wood blocks
under the new arrangement, whereby the Vestry purchased
the timber and had it sawn, partially by their own
men and partially at the saw mills ; the quantity of timber
in deals delivered was 2,340½ loads, and from that
1,476,095 blocks of 3in. by 9in. by 5in. were cut—this is
equal to 630 blocks to the load. The total cost of the
wood, barging up river, unloading, sawing, sawing plant,
engines, and delivering and stacking the blocks on the
road, and including 10 per cent. for supervision, is
£16,524.10.0, equal to £11.3.11 per thousand.
When the proposal was before the Committee on the
10th April, 1894, for the purpose of comparison, the value
of the blocks was taken at £12.12.6 per thousand, this
being the price paid by the Vestry the previous month,
and it was then stated that a sum of £2,406 would be
saved by adopting this method of obtaining the wood. If
the difference between these two sums of £12.12.6 and
£11.3.11 is taken, it gives a nett saving of £2,109 .9.0;
in addition, there is a quantity of about 12,000 blocks in
stock, varying from 2½ to 4½ inches in depth, as also the
plant consisting of three saw benches, engine and sheds.