Engineering supplies to the value of almost £2,000,000 were ordered in England in the last year by the New Zealand Government, a Yorkshire newspaper reports. Among, the contracts placed were those for copper wire, lighting equipment, lathes, oil, tent calico, circuit- breakers, automatic dials, bridge building equipment, steel springs, locomotives, and aviation embarking pontoons. The newspaper also reports that included in the total amount of £2,000,000 is a sum represented by "a further order for 10 locomotives worth more than £lOO,000, which will be supplied by the North British Locomotive Company.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 February 1939, Page 7
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