Gas Conversions By Overseas Consortium
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 27. An overseas consortium with links in Britain and the United States will be responsible for the conversion of the 100,000 appliances in the nine North Island centres to receive Kapuni natural gas next year.
This was announced today by the Secretary of the Gas Association (Mr M. Kennedy) who said that the natural gas negotiating committee met representatives of the Common-wealth-Coward-Shriver consortium in Wellington yesterday and agreed on a final contract.
and Shriver Gas Conversions Inc. (both United States). It also has the contract for the conversion to natural gas of one million appliances in Melbourne for the Gas and Fuel Corporator of Victoria. Mr Kennedy said the first step would be the arrival of experts from the United States for investigations to determine the means of conversion of each type of appliance. An appliance manual to give uniformity to the process would be prepared.
The consortium is made up of three overseas firms—William Coward, Ltd (London), Commonwealth Services, Inc.,
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31615, 28 February 1968, Page 1
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