ROMANCE OF COMMERCE
BIG PROFIT ON SCRAPPED GUNBOAT
I Sydney. One of tho Navy Department's assets, the old gunboat Albert, which for 12 years did tugboat duty in Port Phillip Bay, has been disposed of for £806. That- price included the boilers and engines.
When the report of the Navy Commission was tabled in the House of Representatives recently, Mr Kelly, M.H.R., said he had been informed that the man who bought the gunboat Albert afterwards sold the engines for more than he had paid for the whole shoiv, lock, stock, and barrel. And not only that, but he had had the impudence to sell the engines to another Government Department, j
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 3629, 9 November 1918, Page 4
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