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WORK FOR NEW ZEALAND TENDERERS DEPUTATION OF IRONMASTERS Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. The Ironmasters’ Association asked tho Minister of Railways today that preference should bo-shown New Zealand tenderers in bridge construction and similar contracts. Incidentally it was stated that a New Zealand manyfacturer was required to deliver on the scene of work, whereas outside firms had to deliver only to port of landing. The Hon. W. B. Taverner said lie would bring this before the Minister of Public Works. With regard to the deputation’s requests generally, Mr. Taverner was sympathetic. ‘‘We want to do all the work we can in New Zealand,” he said, “and we are going to do it.”
With regard to a suggestion that the Railway Department let its own work to tender, the Minister pointed out that it was loaded with with its own works, and must make use of them.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 730, 1 August 1929, Page 11
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