TANKS GALORE
(From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, 25th March. Oiie of Sydney's leading papers published a day or two ago a piquant little paragraph which shows that the ways of public departments are sometimes hard to understand. The hospital at Bombala (N.S.W.) forwarded to one of tho Government Department! a requisition for one tank, 6ft by 3ft. The officials at the hospital were staggered, not only by the promptitude with which the order was fulfilled, but also by the very liberal interpretation of the requisition. for there wero dispatched to them, not merely one 6ft by 3ft iron .tank, but fewer than 63 tanks, without a word being asked about the extraordinary number apparently demanded. Ab m pointed out, only a Government Department could do a thing like that, and survive.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 76, 30 March 1926, Page 6
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131TANKS GALORE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 76, 30 March 1926, Page 6
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