MANUFACTURE OF CARTRIDGES.
F FOE It VL GOVE RN AI ENT PRO- ■ U POSAL.
United Press Association— Copyright MELBOURNE, Alarcli 21. . Tho Federal Government is (lerin ,r a scheme for utilising t.ie Proposed” mint for silver and bronze for the complete manufacture of caitridl'es.- The working of the mint wou'il not fully occupy the hands, and as brass cups from which cartridge eases are drawn have to be nnpoit ed it is nronosed to add the manufacture of those cups, to the work of the staff of the mint. The pio fits on the coinage ot silver ambronze is estimated at fitrt thousand nounds per annum h'S "' n,ll<l more-th in cover the cost of prcd .c----ing twenty million cups and tuentj million eonner-nickel bullet envelopes.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2148, 25 March 1908, Page 3
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125MANUFACTURE OF CARTRIDGES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2148, 25 March 1908, Page 3
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