OIL COMPANY’S STEEL
NO SUPPLIES FROM AUSTRALIA (P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The managing-director of the British Petroleum Company of New Zealand, Ltd., Mr R. W. W. Turner, in a statement to the press, said he felt that certain sections of the public had gained the impression that the company was receiving large quantities of steel from New Zealand’s import quota from Australia. He wished to make it quite clear that since his company began its construction programme early in 1947 on oil installations at the major New Zealand ports, and also up-country oil depots, it had not received a ton of steel from Australia. The whole of the company’s steel imports to date had been obtained with the assistance of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd. from the latter’s own stocks, and the majority of this material was fabricated before shipment.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 186, 19 May 1948, Page 2
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