New Works.
NEWCASTLE INDUSTRIES. TINPLATE AND STEEL PIPES. The Broken Hill Proprietary steel works at Newcastle, north of Sydney, anticipate employing 500 men very soon at their tinplate works now under construction. The firm of Buttweld, Ltd., of the same city, has informed the Government that it will begin production in September of steel pipes and tubes in new works, and it is expected that 1500 hands will be employed within a short time. Two hundred engineers are on the way out from Scotland. Newcastle is the State’s principal coal mining district, and on account of the growing operations the housing accommodation has- become a problem. . "■
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Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19211, 18 September 1934, Page 3
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106New Works. Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19211, 18 September 1934, Page 3
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