NEW RAILWAY STATION
DOMINION TENDERERS NOT PREJUDICED (PEESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, September 8. Recently the general secretary to the New Zealand Manufacturers' Federation (Mr A. E. Mander) wrote to the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, with reference to supplies of material for the new railway station to be erected at Wellington. He complained that the New Zealand manufacturer would be placed at a disadvantage because of the necessity of paying the exchange rate, primage duty, and sales tax, all three of which overseas competitors would avoid. Mr Coates said to-day that the manufacturers had written under a definite misapprehension of the situation and the conditions governing the erection of the station. As the statutory body the Railways Board was in control of the erection of the building, but a point of broad Government policy was involved and the Government had not lost sight of the fact that New Zealand manufacturers should not be prejudiced in any way as a result of the course that was being followed. Mr Coates has written to Mr Mander on these lines.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20956, 9 September 1933, Page 21
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