OTAHUHU WORKSHOPS.
NEW MACHINERY LYING IDLE? (fiy Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Mr. W. E. Parry- (Labour, Auckland Central) asked in the House to-day if it was not a fact that thousands of pounds' worth of machinery imported froni Australia for the Otahuhu railway workshops was lying rusting at the shops. He had been informed that at a cost of £50,000 at the'outside sufficient machinery could have been acquired to deal with the country's railway work for the next 20 years, yet there had been huge capital expenditure, and suggestions were now current that a good deal of the equipment w6uld rust instead of being used.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 227, 25 September 1930, Page 8
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