OIL COMPANY'S PLANT.
c d OPERATIONS AT WELLINGTON. a ■ . c EXPENDITCRE ABOVE £320,000. n • c (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) * WELLINGTON, this day. " An English oil company operating in c j New Zealand has secured an area of 25 acres at Miramar, whereon it is erecting plant, including tanks for kerosene, and motor spirit, also a canning works and tin and box-making factories. The exI penditure thereon will amount to a } quarter of a million, necessitating addij lional wharf accommodation, so that j the total capital expenditure will prnj hably reach £320,000. The whole of the I firm's New Zealand business will be j handled from Wellington. Oil will be brought in large tank steamers, pumped into reservoirs at Miramar, and then cased and boxed for distribution. About c j four hundred "hands" will he employed p _ i when the business is established at full c J capacity. n i
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 222, 18 September 1924, Page 5
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