["Five Tenders Received", The Argus (Melbourne), Saturday 08 January 1910, page 19]
A SEARCH VESSEL.
FIVE TENDERS RECEIVED.
Five tenders to supply a steamer for the proposed further search for the Waratah were yesterday before the citizens' committe that is dealing with the matter. Additional information was desired about them, and full consideration as to the acceptance of one was deferred until this has been obtained. The cable message that had been received by the Premier (Mr. Murray) from the Agent-General (Sir John Taverner), in which an intimation was made that the steamer Wakefield, which leaves Durban for Adelaide about the end of January, would undertake the search at a cost of £3,000, was discussed. It was urged that the committee should know whether the Wakefield could complete the survey, going not only to the islands, but crossing and recrossing on the unexplored track over to Australia. It was resolved to elicit further information on this point.
