NEW RAILWAY WAGONS.
ORDER TO STAY IN EMPIRE. (By Wire.—Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Last Night. The Railway Department announced some time ago that owing to the shortage of rolling stock tenders were to be called abroad for 25 locomotives and 2600 wagons. These were to bo additional to the locomotives and wagons that could be built by private firms in this country, or by the railway workshops. Several tenders have been received for the supply of the twenty-five locomotives, and it is understood, although the contract has. riot yet been made, that the order will not go outside the Empire. One tender at least was received, from the United States. The money involved is in the neighbourhood of £300,000.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1920, Page 5
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118NEW RAILWAY WAGONS. Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1920, Page 5
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