PRIVATE v. GOVERNMENT LABOUR.
THE LOCOMOTIVE CONTRACT. (Per Press Association.) THAMES, J„Jv3«A Regarding the protest of tho Christchurch branch of the Trades ami Labour Council as to the order for two additional locomotives placed with Messrs I'rico Bros., Thames. an d (he possession of drawings, the facts-,ru that .the plans and drawings ww essential to the completion of Wlt . t . o „_ tract for the ten locomotives coniplec,l by Messrs X'rlcc Wore the contract tune elapsed. ij nd ...... other lirm been successful tenderers ihey must ~f necessity hove been in possession of similar plans and drawings. Apparently it was impossihta to have had twenty locomolivos-tho number required-completed in tho (.overnment workshops in the time Ides.rod, so ten wwe ordered fr„ m tha t.oveinmeiit workshops, and tenders were called i„r the other ten Tho private, tender was completed well within contract time, „nd long (before tho Governmentworkshops turned out a similar number.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7877, 20 July 1905, Page 2
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150PRIVATE v. GOVERNMENT LABOUR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7877, 20 July 1905, Page 2
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