From the Wellington Evening Post, 15 March 1884 -
The following tenders were received by the Public Works
Department :--Dunedin Station, Passenger Building
Foundation --Accepted--William Carlton, Dunedin,
ᅵ1256. Declined--William Ahern, Dunedin, ᅵ1278 ;
James Small, Dunedin, ᅵ1286; George Calder, Dunedin,
ᅵ1296 ; William Duncan, Dunedin, ᅵ1317; George Bain,
Dunedin, ᅵ1389 ; Patrick Lee, Dunedin, ᅵ1464 ; Wm.
Barkell, Dunedin, ᅵ1479; F. Siedberg, ᅵ1487; John
Lothian, ᅵ1512.
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