£4,250,000 ORDER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 161, 9 July 1910, Page 15

£4,250,000 ORDER.

&tfCCBSS OB* BRi*iSH COOTRACTORS. I ■ .... .;.•■. ■ 0 ; The President of dhili.has signed a de r , circe granting the representative of a power- 5 fal British, group the contract for the con-, r struetion of the mountainous section of the , Chilian railway. Tne contract IS for £4,250,000, and the work has been awarded .] to Messrs GtrUßtliS .and Co., Uihltea, con- j tifacto'rs, Cfriffitiis iElouSe, Lbttddn-Witil. j In the fdee of the <*orapetltl6a of Anierl- < can and other capitalists, Mr J. Norton Grlf- \ flths, Sf.P. tut Weuriesbury; lias again been < stieceksftil, ds in the cdfie of the. Arica-La ] Paz Railway, In Interesting British capitalIste, and thus fificiifing tiie large contract , for Britain, ih the Axica 6&56 it was a d fiernlan group wilch Was in opposition; lh j this instance a vefjr Jowefful Anietlcau coinbifiatibuwas the' cTUei obstacle. j The new line will traverse th 6 heart-or t Ciilii, and opCn up great tfacts of ttaber j and agricultural country, and at the'saine c time connect up the principal nilning centreel of the ricli mineral regions which j Chill t