BRITISH DOCKS
FOREIGN GRANITE PREFERRED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Oopyright. LONDON, March 8. (Received March 9, at 9 a.m.) Heckled in the House of Commons concerning the use of Norwegian granite at. Rosyth docks instead of Irish and British, Mr Burns, President of the Local Government Board, refused to grant tho Admiralty the £30,000 difference in the cost of Scandinavian and British for the purpose of giving employment to British worker*.
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Evening Star, Issue 14003, 9 March 1909, Page 6
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69BRITISH DOCKS Evening Star, Issue 14003, 9 March 1909, Page 6
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