UNABLE TO GET TO JOB
NO PASSAGES AVAILABLE A sidelight on the present acute shortage of, shipping and the difficulty of securing passages overseas from Great Britain is provided by the following letter whicfc appears in a recent issue of the Daily Mail, London. The correspondent, whose' address is in Croydon, writes: — “After being demobbed from the Fleet Air Arm following six years* 1 service I was offered a very good, position in Australia. “To get there I am willing to pay or to work my passage. I have been, trying for four months, but am told V I haven’t a chance for at least 12 months.
1 “If I have to wait that long I may lose the job. It is maddening when one notices that variety artists, film people, M.P.’Sj. cricketers and cricketer’s brothers get priority.” J The letter is signed “Fed Up.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 75, 20 January 1947, Page 5
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145UNABLE TO GET TO JOB Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 75, 20 January 1947, Page 5
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