BUYING SHIPS.
FORD’S LATEST SCHEME. SY CABLE —PR ESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT NEW YORK, May lilt is announced that Mr Henry Ford i.S prepaied to buv 400 of the United States Shinning Board’s vessels, providing the price is reasonable. Mr T. V. "O’Connor (chairman of the boards states the price will not stand in the way so long as the boats are oin" into American hands and will Iv the American Hag. It is understood that if Mr Ford secures the vessels he wiR select from thirty to fifty of the most suitable for trading purposes and scrap the remainder.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 15 May 1925, Page 5
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