MAYOR COMMANDEERS R.A.F. BATHS
LONDON. • Councillor Ralph Wlarren, Mayor of laverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, autho•ised a "raid" on an empty R.A.F. amp near -the town. In the camp were baths going to vaste. And in the town the eonversion )f 10 huts into houses was held up or lack of baths. Much-needed material v/as deterioating while Government idepart-mehts )assed the responsibility from one to tnother, said the housing officials, "We have come to the end of our ether, and intend to requisition- idle lovernment property in empty huts ind other plaees," the Mayor said. "We are being thwarted -at all >oints iby various Government departnents. The Welsh Board of Health, /hich has done everything to help us s the exception." "Police and the Ministry have trade inquiries about our action," the own clerk said. "But we have got vhat we wanted. ■ Our nren removed even ibaths. "The sei-vices v/ere very fond of equisitioning during the war. Now ve are doing some requisitioning ourelves." An official of the Welsh Board of lealth admitted that scattered camps n the rural areas of West Wales ontained many fittings for the want >f which housing programmes are teing delayed.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5280, 17 December 1946, Page 2
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193MAYOR COMMANDEERS R.A.F. BATHS Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5280, 17 December 1946, Page 2
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