DUNEDIN TO CLUTHA.

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GENERAL EENCING SPECIFICATION. The fencing to be used shall be of three kinds, to be known as Qualities Nos. 1, 2, and 3. Quality No. 1. —Quality No. 1 shall consist of a sod Avail, 3 feet 3 inches broad at base, 1 foot 3 inches broad' at top, and 4 feet 6 inches high. It shall be carefully built in uniform layers from 8 to 10 inches thick, and bonded together. A ditch at least 2 feet 6 inches Avide, and 1 foot 6 inches deep, shall be dug on each side, and carried through the Avail where necessary for the drainage of the line or adjoining land. The wall is to be carried over such ditches on sound totara timber 3 inches thick. Quality No. 2. —Quality No. 2 shall consist of post, ditch, mound, three wires, and top rail. Quality No. 3. —Quality No. 3 shall consist of post, five wires, and fop rail. The timber used in Qualities Nos. 2 and 3 shall be totara, matai, kauri, or manuka, or other specially approved timber. The posts to be of split timber, cut square at ends, mortised for rails, and well rammed when in their places. A straining post, 9 feet long, 6 inches in diameter, and Avell stayed, shall be put in at intervals of not more than 5 chains, and at each crossing of existing fences. The top rails shall also be of split timber, scarfed at ends, neatly fitted into mortise holes cut in the posts, and securely fixed with wedges. The wires shall consist of the best black annealed wire of No. 5 Birmingham gauge, and shall be fastened to outside of posts with suitable staples. The mound, in fencing Quality No. 2, shall be of tough firm sods, as specified for sod wall. It shall be 3 feet wide at base, 2 feet Avide at top, and 1 foot 6 inches high. Existing fences crossed and cut doAvn shall be connected with the railway fences, and left in a condition at least equal to that in which they were found. The Contractor shall provide temporary slip-rails or panels in the permanent fencing where required for the accommodation of occupiers, and will give every other facility of access to their lands across the line until the permanent crossings and roads are constructed. John Cabbuthebs. John Bbogden and Sons. 26 ,