GROSS NEGLIGENCE
IMPORTED MACHINERY
RUSTED REMNANTS FOUND
LONDON, March 22. The correspondent of "The Times" at Biga says that the Commissariat of Heavy Industry continues to record negligence tantamount to wrecking in connection with the transport of valuable imported machinery. For example, 140 tons of machinery found at Odessa had been left over two months in the open air rusting. Under the weight of one machine the quay side collapsed, and after a few weeks the machine disappeared in the Black Sea.
The newspaper "Pravda" records the discovery of a consignment 'of machinery, lost in Georgia for two years, though still clearly addressed to Perm. .How it arrived in Georgia nobody knows, and the "Pravda " wonders whether anybody cares. The Ural copper industry has just discovered imported machinery valued originally at between ■ 2,000,000 and ,3,000,000 gold roubles. Some had lain in the open since 1927, serving as a convenient source for anybody requiring spare nuts, bolts, or other parts. The remnants are now a heap of rusty metal partly buried in sand. ■
The Commissariat says that the estimated value is mere conjecture, because it is impossible to recognise some of the machines now.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1933, Page 7
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193GROSS NEGLIGENCE Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1933, Page 7
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