ELECTRIC POWER
PREFERENCE TO BRITAIN
Dominion Special. Auckland. October 11. Contracts totalling £38,528 were let bv the Auckland Electric Power Board to-dav for the purchase of plant that will be needed to receive hydro-elec-tric power from Arapum in 1928. Of the total amount, £30,000 goes to British firms and £B3OO to an American concern. One Swis and one German firm tendered for machinery, but in cadi instance the price was higher than the lowest British tender. The British Thomson Houston Company of England secured a contract for three k.w. rotary converters, transformers,
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 14, 12 October 1926, Page 10
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92ELECTRIC POWER Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 14, 12 October 1926, Page 10
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