Scrap Steel Sold
About 2600 tons of scrap mild steel which has lain rusting in* Railway Department dumps for the past ten years will be shipped to Canada on the City of Eastbourne next week for melting down and re-use,- and a further consignment of 1500 tons will be taken on the City of St Albans later in the month. The steel, at present heaped at the Otahuhu workshops and a dump at Mangere, consists of rail tyres, fishplates, bedplates and assorted spikes, nuts and bolts.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1947, Page 6
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86Scrap Steel Sold Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1947, Page 6
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