SHIPYARD AUCTIONED
NO ORDERS RECEIVED DEFENCE PATROL CRAFT (Special Australian Correspondent.) (10 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 29. A shipyard designed to build patrol vessels for the defence of Australia has been disposed of under the auctioneer’s hammer —before it had received an order to build a single ship. iv Altered plans for the building of small craft are said to have been the reason for the lack of orders. The cost of erecting and fitting out the yard was £IB,OOO. Small vessels of wood or steel could have been built. The shipyard is stated to have been designed by a naval construction, engineer on the assumption that orders would be received from the Navy Department for patrol vessels. When no orders were received, the yard was offered to the Commonwealth Government for £7OOO but the offer was not accepted. Mr. Makin stated that the Navy Deoartment was unable to utilise the plant since “certain altered plans regarding the building of small craft have now-limited the prospects in this class of work.” Fifty prospective buyers attended the sale. The factory property, excluding the machinery, brought no affers, but the bidding for the machinery was keen.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20823, 30 June 1942, Page 3
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