IMPORTING RAILWAY ENGINES.
A SATISFACTORY EXPLANATION. % Telegraph.—Per Press Association, * Wellington, Yesterday, l ,i ■ :, i mcc ''"£ °f tlio Wellington Industrial Association reference was made to the importation of American engines. In reply to an inquiry by the secretary, Price Brothers, of Thames, vrote -stating fiat they had an order i>cm the ' jovernmcnt which would keep then- shops fully occupied for two years, they could not therefore contract for these engines. In any case, the' American firm contracting would de* liver the finished locomotives in le3S time tu.lll a New Zeaalnd firm would require to import the material with which to construct them. Mr Balling-or remarked that the information fillould have been made public, ■tie had heard that Price Brothers could not make the engines, but did not believe it. ■ i The chairman stated that the diffli-<' culties of procuring engineering matew ifll from England at the present time were not realised by the
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 208, 11 February 1915, Page 4
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152IMPORTING RAILWAY ENGINES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 208, 11 February 1915, Page 4
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