OUR RAILWAY ENGINES.
PRICE BROTHERS' POSITION.
Per Press (Association
Wellington, February 10
At a meeting of the Wellington Industrial Association, reference was made to the importation of American engines. In reply to an inquiry by the secretary, Price Brothers, of Thames, wrote stating that they Trad an order from the Government which would keep the shops fully occupied for two years. They could not. therefore, tender for these engines. In any case, the American firm was contracting to deliver the finished locomotives in less time than a Xew Zealand firm would require to import the material, with which to construct them.
Mr Ballinger remarked that the in-
formation should have been inade public. He had heard that Price Brothms could not make the engines, but he "did not believe it. The Chairman stated that the diilieulties of procuring engineering material from Kngland at the present time wore not realised by the public.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 33, 10 February 1915, Page 7
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152OUR RAILWAY ENGINES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 33, 10 February 1915, Page 7
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