SHIPS BUILT IN N.Z.
WELLINGTON, Dee. S. No Jess than £3,000,000 worth. of shipping was constructed during the war in Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Port Chalmers by New Zealand marine engineers, said Mr. E. Brown, chief inspector of machinery and chief surveyor of ships in the Marine Departnient, when speaking to the Wellington braneh of the New Zealand Institute of Marine and Power Engineers oh Saturday. Mr. Brown contended that Australia's repeated inquirv for minesWeepers, in addition to the five already purchased, was the work of a leading eoustructiou engineer, Mr. G! E. Breeze, and Iiis statf. The £3,000,000 worth of craft included 13 niinedweepers, .12 anti-submarine hoata 112 feet long which cost £35,000 each, and were now selling at £1255, , two oi! barges, 50 45-foot tow boats, 22 75-foot steel tugs, 16 114-foot powered cargo vessels, 240. barges and innumer-U-ple smaller craft.
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 December 1946, Page 2
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