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ADMIRALTY CONTRACT LOST [Australian Press Assn.) LONDON, July 20. “Owing to the high prices demanded by British firms ,1 have been compelled to place many contracts for goods abroad, ’ ’ declared Mr C. G. Ammon, financial secretary to the Admiralty, in a speech at London. He said that the difference on one contract which had gone to the United States, vjas 120 per cent. It would be preposterous to spend public money to that extent in order to keep contracts in Britain. He expressed the opinion that the disparity was not due to underpaid labour but British manufacturers’ lack of enterprise.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 173, 23 July 1929, Page 9
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