UNION COMPANY.
EXTENSIVE NEW WORKS. By Telegraph —Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. - Contracts have been let to Messrs. McArthur and Co. and McLean and Gray, Wellington (jointly), for the erection of extensive works for the Union Steam Ship Company at Evans Bay. The contract is, about £21,000, and twelve months have boon given the contractors, in which to complete it. The buildings, which are to be erected on the steel frame principle encased in corrugated iron, will contain engineering, boiler-making and machine shops, electrical department. sawmill, joinery, upholstery and boat-building shed. The erection of these works means that a large portion of the company’s work previously carried out at Port Chalmers will be done in Wellington. A start has been made with the new works. The company already has an extensive laundry in course of construction in the same locality.'
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 84, 29 May 1911, Page 8
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140UNION COMPANY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 84, 29 May 1911, Page 8
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