ALTERATIONS TO SHIP
REHABILITATION TRAIN EES Rehabilitation trainees from an Auckland ciy-.pentry training centre effected essential alterations to cabin accommodation in the former minesweeper Whalcakura before she commenced transTasman operations with her reha-bilitation-financed , ex-servicemen crew. This was disclosed at the monthly meeting of the Rehabilitation Board. ■ The Whakakura. was recently purchased by a syndicate of 15 exservicemen who were financed by the board. She is being used to carry fruit and produce to and from Australia. The trainees were employed mainly because of the difficulty in obtaining qualified tradesmen at short notice, it was stated. Without them the job .would have been held up,- and the ship would have lain idle. As it was the trainees worked oil (lie ship during the week-ends. Despite this the work had been completed at a figure very satisfactory to the Whakakura syndicate through the employment of their fellow ex-servicemen.
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Opotiki News, Volume X, Issue 1047, 18 November 1947, Page 3
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146ALTERATIONS TO SHIP Opotiki News, Volume X, Issue 1047, 18 November 1947, Page 3
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