AMERICAN CONTRACT.
WORK ON SINGAPORE BASE. . ' • ~ <■> -v ( (uvmD v&us AMMoewntjs—at .*lb<Jbuc tbusobajh—•coFtsioar.) LONBONrNdvemßer'2. The "Daily Express,'-'', in/ ial, states that the Bniaih eoriiract«9 for the Singapore Naval Base hare placed £70,000 of tho conjracfr with excavators in America./-' The. Adiniralty las apparently given it will be one of the biggest contracts; of recent years, and without',any»:ifiipulation against the use of foreign mate-, rial, while the /will "be legally free to purchase their require- • inenta wherever they < "W©;should have .says the "Daily Express," "that-the spirit and ' circumstances of, task .would <t , have weighed as mucft. as .the'jstrict j • letter of-the bond, "especially in view*' . of Mr Baldwirilg recent appeal <wirbe- jhalf of the unemployed.''-—Australian,\„v Press Association. United Service"/ , " f '^-
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19459, 5 November 1928, Page 7
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