BRITISH INDUSTRIES
AN IMPROVED OUTLOOK £10,000,000 CONTRACT British Official Wireless RUGBY, Monday. A great improvement is being shown in the British iron and steel industries. Last month the output of steel was 761,600 tons, or nearly 140,000 tons larger than that for January, 19.28. Reports from the shipbuilding districts show that progress is now being made with the laying down of the new ships recently contracted for. In the engineering districts of the Midlands the volume of work is steadily maintained. The coal trade is experiencing a rapid increase in demand, and many more pits are at work in South Wales. There and on the northern coalfields other mines are being reopened. A contract worth about £10,000,000 from the Government of Greece for the reclamation and irrigation of great areas of land for agricultural purposes has been secured in the face of keen international competition by Henry Boot and Sons, Limited, a Sheffield firm of public works contractors. This .work will be spread over 10 years.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 592, 19 February 1929, Page 9
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