UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY.
IMPORTAST WORKS AT WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, May 28. The Union Company has just let a joint contract to Messrs M'Arthur and Co. and Messrs M'Lean and Gray (of Wellington) for the erection of extensive works at Evan's Bay. The contract price is about £21,000, and the time allowed in which, to complete it is one year. The buildings, which are to be erected on the steel-frame principle, and encased in corrugated iron, ■Jrill have a frontage of 450f0 and a depth of about 100 ft. The- buildings will contain engineering, boilermaking, and machine shops, an electrical department, a-sawmill, joinery, and upholstery department, and a "boat-building shed. etc. Some idea of the extent of the buildings can be formed from the fact that something iike 500 tons of steel girders and joists will be used. The establishment of these works will enable a Large proportion of the Union Company's work hitherto carried out at Port Chalmers to be done in Wellington. The company already lias an extensive laundry in course of construction in the same locality.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2985, 31 May 1911, Page 31
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178UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY. Otago Witness, Issue 2985, 31 May 1911, Page 31
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