A Melbourne manufacturer of silver platewarc is contemplating ihe establishment of a factory in Now Zealand, according Io Mr G. S. Sleight, managing director of a Melbourne firm ol funeral directors, who is in Christchurch. Mr Sleight said that the manufacturer was in New Zealand now. after landing at Auckland, and was investigating prospects for starting the industry. Mr Sleight saw no reasons why such work should not bo done in New Zealand. For the last five years metal furnishings for coffins had been manufactured satisfactorily in Melbourne, whereas until (lien’ they had been imported fromEngland. He commended the objects oi the import restrictions, and said that the move was quite justified.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19390216.2.78
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1939, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
112Untitled Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1939, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in