RAILWAY STATION
NEW ZEALAND TENDERS
REPLY TO MANUFACTURERS
Recently the general- secretary of the New Zealand Manufacturers' Federation addressed a letter to the Acting Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) with reference to the supply of materials for' the new 'railway station. He complained that tho New Zealand manufacturer would be placed at a disadvantage owing to the necessity of paying exchange rate, primage duty, and sales tax, all three of which overseas competitors would avoid. In conversation with a "Post" representative today, Mr. Coates made some comments on Mr. Mander's contentions. The manufacturers, he said, had written under a definite misapprehension of the situation and the conditions governing the erection of the station. As a statutory body tho Railways Board was in control of the erection of tho building, but a point of broad Government policy was involved, and the Government had not lost sight of the fact that the 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 the lines stated above.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 60, 8 September 1933, Page 8
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184RAILWAY STATION Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 60, 8 September 1933, Page 8
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