SHIP BUILDING COMPETITION.
DUTCH MAKING THE PACE
Australian and N.K. Cable Assoctotion (Received August 12, 10 a.m.) LONDv/N, August 11.
The Daily Mail learns that Dutch shipyards .re intensifying competition by accepting contracts at a minimum mat - gin of profit. British shipyards are u.nalle ’-o compete. A syndicate id arranging for the amalgamation of the Wilton firm, Rotterdam, Britain's principal individual competitor, with the big Reihersterg shipyard at Hamburg. Two Dutch' tug.s are engaged in the record task of towing the fire-damaged steamer City of Singapore from .Adelaide to Rotterdam, a,s tlieycosl of repairs in Australia or England would bo prohibitive.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16806, 12 August 1925, Page 7
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101SHIP BUILDING COMPETITION. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16806, 12 August 1925, Page 7
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