jeep Allocations
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Disappoint Lae Citizens
LAE, Nov. 20.
RESIDENTS of Lae who made applica tion for jeeps within the last two months, assembled at the parking area on November 16, either to accept or reject the vehicles allocated to them.
Prices varied from £l5 upwards, which on paper naturally looked attractive. But there were expressions of dissatisfaction all round when it was found that the vehicles were, minus many vital parts.
Some appeared as though they had been over the cliffs at Sydney Heads, others were minus batteries ahd distributors which had been “salvaged” during their months in the vehicle park.
Everyone was disappointed, more so in view of the fact that the adjoining park is full of once-servicable heavy-duty vehicles from which engines have been taken by Southern buyers, leaving the park strewn with derelict vehicles of all types and sizes. Southern buyers paid 38/- each for those vehicles.
Australian
Writer
Mr. Fletcher Moss, who has recently re turned to Melbourne, after several months spent in Tahiti. He will write a book on French Oceania.