LOSS ON SYDNEY BRIDGE.
OWING TO DEPRECIATION OF CURRENCY. LONDON, December 20. Explaining the loss on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the chairman, Sir Charles Mitchell, of Messrs Dorman, Long, Ltd., pointed out that the company was paid in Australian pounds, which no one in 1924 could possibly forsee would depreciate to 16s by 1931'.
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Wairarapa Age, 22 December 1932, Page 6
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54LOSS ON SYDNEY BRIDGE. Wairarapa Age, 22 December 1932, Page 6
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