43 I (B) To the fact that the City Building Surveyor required a central stringer being placed in each of the Staircases leading to the Upper Deck. These alterations necessitated a further 100 tons of Steel approximately, which at the average rate of £12 per ton would account for £1200 of Messrs Mortons increased charge. II Bullens contract: Mr. Leitch had practically no excuse to offer for the difference herein. He stated that he did not give the quantities taken out herein his full personal supervision. He stated that his own surveyor had been obliged to return to Scotland owing to the state of his health & that he had to employ a Nottingham Surveyor to take out these quantities. He regretted to say that a very grave miscalculation had been made in the quantity of Brick work & Roofing. That was his only explanation for the considerable difference which arose. He had now received Mess. Bullens a/c & was employing a neutral surveyor to check every item thereof & he hoped to have this a/c ready for submission to the Directors at their next meeting. III Concreting, Terracing &c. His Explanation as to the considerable increase in the actual over estimated expenditure in this matter, he could only account for by expressing his surprise thereat. He did point out that a portion thereof was due to the extension of