RAOC Gazette - page 18
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Material type | Journals |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1977 |
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| Colour | No |
| Grey | No |
| Early date | 1977 |
| Late date | 1977 |
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I reckon Mr Muscat must have earned the prize for'the longest sentence (his third paragraph) ever written to a govern- ment department, unless, in the words of a welt-known television programme, you know better ! SAVK I have been wholly deprived from further doing any kind of business, as f have not been allowed to touch same, although I have been having the burden of rent for stocking said material, custody from being stolen or diminished plus myself being kept idle, as my rrade, is by utilising the material for my business, while now I have no alternative than having a direct detriment of having to stock the material. IT is some while since I put pen to paper its capital is idle, not accrueing anything for these pages. This has been due to a not even a penny, and myself I have now happy marriage of circumstances: our to look for work elsewhere, while I have Editor has received a mass of eminently ever been as a charge-man of blacksmiths, publishable material some of which might in my business enterprise at the said ad- have had to be rejected to give me room, dress, so, being this the case, that / have while for my part I have been engaged left no other alternative, than to pray in moving house and then in taking the unto Your Excellency's to kindly cause air overseas to recover. If you did not the proper Authorities concerned to send miss my jottings, I am sorry to disturb and collect the stock, which I have been your reverie; if you did, [ hope you will ordered to keep at disposal, and so at be interested in what follows. Better least I be then able to recover the cost, still, please do write in to keep the flow and thus have the equivalent in cash to of material going. live with to cut down the shop rent, etc., and, in the meantime, I pray also that I be employed even as chargeman in some SAVE IT—I Military Workshop, so as I be then able IN time of war, anything of value in the to minimise the draw-back I found my- self into. manufacture of munitions is at a pre- mium and so you may be amused to read I have the honour to be, the following letter which fell into my Your Excellency's, hands the other day. It is written in Most obedient servant. Malta, at that time a Crown Colony, and (Sgd) J. MUSCAT illustrates the problems that a campaign To: to save resources can produce: His Excellency, The Officer administering the Government, A ddress: Joseph Muscat The Palace, 54 High Street, VALLETTA Naxxar. 28th December, 1940 HS-'H-* Your Excellency, May Your Excellency, be so ever gracious as to allow me, the undersigned, to very respectfully submit the follow- ing, with the ardent wish and hope that Your Excellency may be so ever gracious and gentle to well entertain same and be thus duly approved by Your Excellency^ —to wit: 2. Whereas, I> the undersigned, being a blacksmith by trade, residing at the above address, and prior to hostilities in Malta, / used to carry on my business enterprise at the said premises, but. owing to the fact, that the recent Government notice published with the direct purpose that whomsoever has in his possession, or under his own care, any iron material, this should be reported at once, according to the said notice, so far so good. 3. So, since about a four month period, the Military Authorities called upon me to deliver a small part of the said iron material. I had at the time, and for which, I been duly paid, but, the purport of the present, is owing to the direct fact, that the remaining stock, which is over 26/27 tons of iron material / have been ordered TO keep for the disposal of the Military Authorities while, this I am keeping, while, •II! IT—H I CANNOT publish it because it is marked fc RESTRICTED * but I thought you might like to hear about a piece of paper t was given the other day. It is an amendment to Ammunition and Ex- plosive Regulations (Land Service) Volume 2. It contains the usual caution, Army Code No, and signature but the amendment itself consists of twelve words, including the title and the in- struction 'manuscript*; the page on which this is printed is eleven and a half inches by eight and well over three quarters of it not to mention the back is quite blank, Here is a case where officialdom could surely have helped itself in the current campaign to save paper? OLD SOLDIERS IN the January GAZETTE, I published a photograph sent to me by Mr Tomms of the RAOC team which won the Hong Kong Garrison Tennis League and Doubles in 1924. I asked if anyone knew members of the team apart from Lieu- tenant Colonel Bill Gillow, The answer has come from Mr Jim Chalkley of the Corps Museum. Left to right, back row: Lance Corporal Hawkins, Staff Sergeants Wright and Davies, Private Redfearn, Lance Corporal Randle; front row: SQMS Tomms, Major F. H. Phillips, Staff Sergeant Gillow. Do they ring any bells? This photograph is of the team which won the Mulcahy Shield in 1932, 18 Section RAOC Didcot. Thanks to Major Bill Glazier the Unit has featured in this column before and here are the names of those in the group. Left to right, back row: Lance Sergeant H, Tstead, Corporal C. Griss. Private A. Wood. SQMS N. M~'-,-:& |
| Book number | R0246 |