THE BROGDEN CONTRACT AND LOCAL, INDUSTRY.
TO THE EDITOR OE THE HAWKE’S BAY TIMES. Sir,-- Ouv paternal Government profess to be groat advocates of local industries, and have offered heavy premiums for the encouragement of the same; yet in their arrangement with the Messrs Brogden, they made no proviso that that firm should establish workshops, and manufacture or cause to be manufactured in the Colony such articles, as can bo produced here. And—“ tell it not in Gath ! ”- -Messrs Brogden have ordered some £7,000 worth of ballast wagons , from home —as if we had no timber here, nor men that could make such tilings. When we call to mind the fact that the Messrs Brogden are to receive ten per cent, on all outlay for the railways they are to construct, we can calculate what will be the cost to the Colony of the said ballast wagons, and of other things that might have been made for less than their freight to the Colony. -Yours, &;c , A M ECHANIC.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1260, 28 February 1872, Page 2
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169THE BROGDEN CONTRACT AND LOCAL, INDUSTRY. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1260, 28 February 1872, Page 2
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