FOREIGN GOODS.
AUSTRALIAN PURCHASES. ' . •• > SYDNEY, Thursday. • Mr. Hudson, president' of tire'’ Australian Association of British Alauafnetures, speaking at the annual meeting of the association, said last year Australia bought nearly fifty millions sterling worth of competitive' goods ’from countries other than the United Kingdom. . , 4 Ho strongly criticised the • tendency now showing itself to use Empire capital in supporting- foreign production, and said the association had reliable information that in building the Federal Parliament House at Canberra a large order was placed in the United States for door and window fittings, for which the British manufacturer was not given an opportunity to quote., He also instanced the Government Bank at Sydney in obtaining locks and hardware fittings from the United States and the S'outh Australian railways which were getting over a million sterling worth of railway waggons from the United States. —<(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 December 1925, Page 5
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