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Letter: Offer to provide blue metal for streets using paupers and convicts for labour, 1868

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Unique IDA-00295973SeriesLetters Received [Municipal Council of Sydney]DateBetween 8th June 1868 and 9th June 1868Date qualifierexactFormatVolume - HardcoverDescriptionLetter: Jules Joubert, Victoria Chambers to Mayor. Following your advice, Monsr Buette has examined various quarries where [City] extracts street metal, and offers: 1. to supply blue metal in any part of city broken to any size ready for use at 11/- per ton. 2. ..in "light of philanthropic views of your Council we will undertake to employ a number of the "paupers" who now earn their daily bread in stone breaking". 3. if government wish to give us some convicts to extract stone, will employ them piece work. 4. only condition is a three year contract. Also letter Jules Joubert, agent for Monsr Buet, to Mayor (dated 21/5/1868 with index no 468 attached) has Buet patentee of new machine for stone breaking, offers stone at 10% under current price offers demonstration and extols cost savings.LanguageEnglish (eng)Digitised recordYes

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Letter: Offer to provide blue metal for streets using paupers and convicts for labour, 1868

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