CONTRACTS GO ABROAD.
PUBLIC NEEDS lIN BRITAIN. LOSS OF OVER £1,000,000. Sun. DDNDON.Feb. 22. The newspapers complain that numerous public bodies are giving contracts abroad despite the fact that there ate 1,250,000 unemployed in Britain. They enumerate various contracts with Danish, Belgian, German, and American firms, as a result of which Britain was deprived of orders aggregating over £1,000,000.
COMMONWEALTH TELEGRAPHS BRITISH GOODS PREFERRED. A.and N.Z. ' LONDON, Feb. 22. Sir Joseph Cook, High Commissioner for Australia, has. placed orders in England for £250,000 worth of copper wire for the Commonwealth's telegraphs, notwithstanding the fact that the same material is obtainable on the Continent | several thousand pounds cheaper.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18642, 25 February 1924, Page 7
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107CONTRACTS GO ABROAD. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18642, 25 February 1924, Page 7
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