NEW USE FOR IDLE SHIPS.

Mataura Ensign, 24 February 1909, Page 4

NEW USE FOR IDLE SHIPS.

Mr Alfred Christensen, a shipowner of Copenhagen, well known in England, has carried out an excellent idea on one of his company's shins. The Johannes, which owing to tile prevailing depression has been laid up. has been arranged as a boarding ship for unemployed and homeless people. There is accommodation for about 100 people, who come every night, and are gratuitously berthed and provided with supper and breakfast. On Christmas Eve a good dinner was also served. Mr Christensen hopes that some of his colleagues will follow his example, and perhaps even the Naval Department might arrange one or two old war-vee-sels as boarding-ships.