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COLLIERS LAID UU. BUT N.Z. GOVERNMENT CONTRACT LET TO AUSTRALIAN COMPANY. (Press Association./ AUCKLAND, Feb. 14. The fact that three New Zealand colliers are lying idle in Auckland harbor and that there is said to be acute unemployment among seamen and firemen in Auckland, lias given rise, to a protest against the action of the Govermeut in lotting a contract. to an Australian shipping company for carrying Newcastle coal to New Zealand. The secretary of the Seamen s Union, Mr Anderson, stated lie understood the Government was obtaining 150.000 tons of coat from Austraand it was certain that the shipping contract had been lot to an Australian firm. "Retting the eontract to Australia means that our monev is going out of New Zen land., said ‘Air Anderson. “Then again. Australian ships engaged in the coal trade are repaired in Australia, while our own slips are repaired here. Representations have been made to the Prime Minister on the subject.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10511, 15 February 1928, Page 5
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