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SHIPBUILDING. AGREEMENT ON WAGES REACHED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 9. An agreement on wages between the shipbuilding employers and most of the shipyard Unions was announced yesterday. The outlook in the shipbuilding yards has improved and among the new orders booked is one for eight oil tankers and one timber-carrying ship, to be built at the works of Swan, Hunter, and Richardson, Ltd., WrfHsend-on-Tlyne, and another for six first-class 10,009 tons cargo boats for a Continental firm of shipowners, to be built at Harland and Wolff’s merles at Belfast.
ADMIRAL RETIRES. SIR HUGH WATSON PROMOTED. RUGBY, October 9. The Admiralty announces that Admiral Sir Rudolf Bentinck has been placed on the retired list at his own reqlest, and Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Watson has been promoted to the rank of Admiral.
[’Admiral Sir Rudolf Bentinck has been Commander-in-Chief of the Plymouth station since 1926. He was Chief of IStaff (to Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty on H.M.S. Lion and was present at the Battle of Jutland. During the years 1918-21 ho was secretary* to the First Lord of the Admiralty and was promoted to the rank of Admiral last year. He is 60 years of age. Admiral Sir Hugh Watson is 57 years old. During the war he commanded successively H.M.S. Essex, Bellerophon, and Canada. Tn 1924-25 he commanded the Third
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1929, Page 5
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