BRITISH INDUSTRY
CONTRACTS FOR OVERSEAS
From information received by the British Trade Commissioner in New Zealand from the Department of Over-' seas Trade, London, recent _ contracts for overseas secured by British firms include the following:— Argentina: Diesel trains (£176,806); railway equipment; petrol gang trolleys. Assam: Railway equipment. Australia: Locomotive lor Victoria.. China: Rails and fastenings for King-Kan Railway. Egypt: Railway rolling stock for pas-: senger traffic. Gold Coast: Railway passenger carriages. India: Railway equipment. Irak: Railway tank wagons and 35 passenger coaches. Jamaica: Mechanical rail cars. New Zealand: Ten Diesel rail cars; eight units of machinery for brewing. Rhodesia: Turbo alternator, £20,000. South Africa: Nine trolley buses for Durban; 12 Diesel rail cars, South African Railways. Uruguay: Fleet of 29 motor vehicles. A fracture of the left forearm was suffered by Robert Evison, a schoolboy, 26 Riddler's Crescent, Petone, when he fell from a tree at 1.40 p.m. yesterday. He was taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance. Walter Raud, a hairdresser* of 62 Brougham Street, suffered a severe lacerated wound io his right foot and injuries to his right knee when he fell off his motor-cycle on the maun road, Akatarawa, at 12.40 p.m. yesterday. He was taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 81, 3 October 1938, Page 6
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