The Board of Guardians of Croom Union is seeking tenders for the supply of various goods to the workhouse, free of carriage, for a six-month period ending on September 30, 1904. As part of the required items, the Union is specifically requesting tenders for the provision of coffins for both adults and children under the age of 15. These coffins should be constructed using solid material, without any knots or shakes, and should be well-jointed and painted. The pricing for the coffins should be provided individually as part of the tender submission. Interested parties are invited to submit their tenders on or before the specified date.
The Board of Guardians of Croom Union also invites tenders for the supply of various goods to the workhouse, free of carriage, for a period of six months until the 30th of September. The required items are as follows:
- Best bakers’ flour per ton
- Best rice flour per sack
- Best oatmeal per sack
- Best American bacon (Wright’s widdles), not exceeding 18lbs per cwt
- Best Irish bacon branded Limerick, with curer’s name, per lb
- Best beef per lb in half-quarters, including beef for tea off the round
- Best mutton per lb in sides, weighing not less than 36lbs and not exceeding 42lbs, free from suet
Note: The decision regarding the quality of the supplied wheat, as determined by the Medical Officer and Master of the Workhouse, will be final. Deliveries must be made before 9:30 each morning, or the Master will purchase meat from an alternate supplier, with the cost charged to the contractor.
Additionally, tenders will be received on the same day for the following items, to be supplied to the workhouse, free of carriage, preferably of Irish manufacture, for a period of twelve months until 31st March 1905:
- Tea at 1s 8d per lb
- Coffee at 2s per lb
- Soft sugar per cwt
- Best Malakoff shell cocoa, 10 cases per cwt
- Rice and pepper at 1d per lb
- Hennessy’s brandy per bottle
- Best port and sherry wine per 4oz
- Cork-brewed Porter per dozen bottles
- Whiskey at 18s per gallon, sourced from the following firms: Walker’s, Cork Distillery, Persse’s, Powers, Sinclair’s
- Best gin per bottle
- Bewley and Draper’s table water per dozen
- Salt per cwt
- Composite candles per dozen lbs
- Firelights per dozen packages
- Best arrowroot per lb
- Arrowroot biscuits (in tins) per lb
- Best almond biscuits per lb
- Best Irish soap (manufacturer’s brand to be mentioned)
- Best carbolic soap per lb
- Irish starch per lb
- Washing soda per cwt
- Ball blue per lb
- Fresh eggs (every eighth to weigh 1lb) per dozen
- Royal Daylight petroleum per gallon (empty barrels to be returned to the contractors)
- Best butter per lb
- Chickens per lb
- Paver and crab-head nails per 1,000
- Carpenters’ nails (different sizes) per lb
- Nate’s upper sole and insole leather per lb
- Wooden pegs per lb
- Tips per dozen
- Any other necessary shoe findings
- Coffins for adults and children under 15 years of age, made of solid material, free from knots and shakes, well jointed and painted, priced individually
- Best tobacco and snuff per lb, cut and weighed into ounces
- Cleaning the workhouse chimneys
- Glazing the workhouse windows per pane
The contract will be awarded to the successful tenderer, subject to approval. All tenders must be submitted by the specified date.
Limerick Echo – Tuesday 22 March 1904
