STEEL FROM ENGLAND.
Electric Telegraph—Press Association 'WELLINGTON, September 4. Air Andrew Fletcher, of the Fletcher Construction Company, stated that the whole of the steel to be used in the erection of the Dunedin Post Office will come from Great Britain. He mentioned that more steel will be used in its erection than the erection of any building in New Zealand up. to the present time. There would be altogether 2400 tons of steel. The specifications provided for the use of heavy column members of “H” section. These were of a new British type, and were not rolled in Australia at present. They would therefore have to be ordered from England.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12441, 6 September 1933, Page 5
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110STEEL FROM ENGLAND. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12441, 6 September 1933, Page 5
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