ORDERS FOR SHIPS
REMARKABLE INCREASE IN BRITAIN British Official Wireless (Received May 10, 5.5 p.mj RUGBY. May 9. A remarkable increase in the volume of orders for new merchant ships has taken place since, on March 28, the Government subsidy was announced. The 200th merchant vessel projected under this scheme was provisionally ordered yesterday, and practically every shipyard in Britain, available for building seagoing ships, is assured of steady work for the next eighteen or twenty-four months. The Board of Trade has decided that no more applications can be entertained in the immediate future.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21342, 11 May 1939, Page 10
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94ORDERS FOR SHIPS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21342, 11 May 1939, Page 10
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