TRADE WITHIN THE EMPIRE
POLICY OF BRITISH RAILWAYS. PURCHASE OF SLEEPERS. (frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 13. It is stated that the London, Midland, and Scottish Railway Company has ordered 24,000,0C0ft of British-Columbian Douglas fir for sleepers. This marks the °P®i" ing of the nww policy of the British railways confining their purchases to British manufacturers and Empire material wherever possible. The railways spend collectively £40,000,000 annually, covering approximately 50,000 different materials. The new policy is expected to greatly increase Empire trade.—Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19688, 15 January 1926, Page 9
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