RUSSIAN NEGLIGENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18903, 24 March 1933, Page 5

RUSSIAN NEGLIGENCE.

GREAT LOSS SUSTAINED. VALUABLE MACHINES RUINED. AMAZING DISCLOSURES. United Press A-ssn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, March 23. The Riga correspondent of the Times says the Commissariat of Heavy Industry continues to record negligence tantamount to wrecking in connection with the transport of valuable imported machinery. For example, 140 tons of machinery found at Odessa had been left for more than two months in the open air and was rusting. Under the weight of one machine a quay collapsed after a few weeks and the machine disappeared in the Black Sea. The newspaper Pravda records the discovery of a consignment of machinery which was lost in Georgia for two years though it is still clearly addressed to Penn. How it arrived in Georgia nobody knows. The paper says it wonders whether anybody cares. A firm engaged in the Ural copper industry has just discovered some imported machinery, valued originally at between 2,000,000 and .3,000,000 gold roubles, some of Which has lain in the open since 1927. It has been serving as a convenient source for anybody requiring spare nuts, bolts and other parts. The remnants are now a heap of rusty metal, partly buried in sand. The" Commissariat says the estimated value Is a mere conjecture because it is possible to recognise some of the machines.