CONFUSED ORDERS
DISMANTLING Ol SHIP London, Feb. 26. Major Leonard Cripps, chairman oi Elder Dempster Lines, and an elder brother of Sir Stafford Cripps, is trying to find out what Government departmer' ordered 40 workmen to tear 50 cabins out of one of his company’s ships—and then sent 340 men to put them back, reports the Sydney Morning Herald’s London correspondent. Major Cripps said he did not know the workmen were demolishing the cabins until he paid a chance visit. He telephoned the contractors employing the men, who said they were carrying out instructions from a Gox*ernment department. “Soon after demolition was stopped, and 340 workmen were sent to rebuild the cabins and put back the fittings,’- 5 said Major Cripps. “They are still ■ working. I am wondering whether they might be told to-day to take the cabins out again.” *
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 55, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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