LOST SHIP REPAIRING CONTRACT.
LONDON, .lamiiiry 2(5.
\ statement that the Dutch Goveinme.it paid a subsidy to a ship repairing firm in Holland so that it could obtain a contract for the repair of a ship lying at a British port and therein- reduce unemployment is made h\ a'writer at Blyth. Northumberland,
He writes that when at Christmans ~ i ar ,re Norwegian steamer which went, ashore on the rocks 300 yards outside the pierhead was got off, leaking badly tenders were invited for repair. •■The Dock Company here quoted £8.942,” he adds, -with time 35 days. J while a Rotterdam fnm quoted for [ £5.230, with time 21 days. The boat went to Rotterdam. “T hear the Rotterdam firm informed their Government they could obtain this reoairing ioh and take 400 to o 0 men off the list of unemployed tor -i days. They got a subsidy sufficient to „et the contract and to pay themselves and the Government saved a huge sum of unemployment doles by paying men to work instead of doing nothing. At hat chance have British firms in the face of this?”
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1925, Page 3
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184LOST SHIP REPAIRING CONTRACT. Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1925, Page 3
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