STEEL BEAMS.
STATEMENT BY PREMIER. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 26. In reference to an Auckland telegram regarding tho shipment of 55 steel beams, landed by the Tongariro, and said to have come from Antwerp for the railways, tho Prime Minister, when questioned to-night, said ho knew nothing of tho order. “Wo have ordered no beams outside of Britain,” ho said. Mr Coates suggested that the order might have been placed by tho contractor doing the railway work. In that event, the department was not responsible,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 202, 27 July 1926, Page 4
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86STEEL BEAMS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 202, 27 July 1926, Page 4
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