CARTRIDGES AND COINS.
• V , '. A FEDERAL : MINT. (by TELEGRAPH—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COrYBIGHT.) Moifcsuriip, July 3. - Tho board that was appointed to report regarding the proposal for the manufacture \of copper and • brass cups for cartridgemaking, and the coinage of silver and copper, report against tho creation of a Commonwealth mint,' and recommend .that arrangements should be mado ,with existing" mints, at a cost of £7500 for plant and an annual expenditure of £3300; further, that the cups should be mado by a cartridge factory.,". ■ ■ , (
• Tho Colonial Ammunition Company is prepared to undertake tho -work; free of cost if tho Government will grant them an extension of their lease;. ••.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 241, 4 July 1908, Page 5
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