Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1883. LOCAL INDUSTRY.
Xv the Honse on Tuesdsy Mr Bracken isked if the blankets and flannels uged m our hospitals, gaols, asylums, and industrial isehr>Bls : are manufactured In New Zealaad j and if the brown paper used for Government purposes id manufactured m New Zealand j also, if coal used m- the .Parliament Buildings and other public institutions is imported or taken from New Zealand mines ; and if thci telegraph forms ape printed m this colony. The Hon. Mr Dig* replied "IKat Hospital^eSttimittees made their own arrangements; thafc blankets and flannels used m gaols, asylums; £c, were mostly "made m the colony ; that f odaJß jwere obtained by lowest tender, "^pcti*ff W 'l#* source;' tfeongh he i iU f?^ jfron> Newcastle m some jinstances j that.] brown paper of colonial manufacture was being used, or would be so, "whenever suitable; m al' fespeots ; and tnat telegraph forms .were supplied from England under a contrao't not yet expired. The lowest tender m this case had been given within the colony, but the tenderer refused to take it up except at an increase of 48 per cent to cover what was said to >c a miscalculation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 202, 2 August 1883, Page 2
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204The Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1883. LOCAL INDUSTRY. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 202, 2 August 1883, Page 2
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