EXPENSIVE CONTRACT
ADELAIDE, May 5. : It has transpired that the contract recently obtained by a local firm for the manufacture of locomotives is sixty per cent higher than the English tender. The Labor party assert that the excess price goes to the manufacturer only, as the local men are not more highly paid than the English ironworkers.
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Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7004, 6 May 1891, Page 4
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57EXPENSIVE CONTRACT Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7004, 6 May 1891, Page 4
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