LIVERPOOL’S LOST OPPORTUNITY.
WHY HARLAND AND WOLFF WENT TO' BELFAST. UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT.} (Received April 21, 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, April 21. ' Mr G. Wolff, replying on the occasion of being presented with the freedom of the. City of Belfast, recalled 1 that when, twenty-three years ago, he and Mr. Harland proposed to start a shipbuilding yard at Liverpool, th© narboi airthorities replied that they weir© too young to start such an undertaking. Accordingly they moved to Belfast, and were now employing 14,000 hands.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3200, 22 April 1911, Page 8
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83LIVERPOOL’S LOST OPPORTUNITY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3200, 22 April 1911, Page 8
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