1 *m "nndm i VOL. 4 — NO. 12 HAMILTON. BERMUDA, SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1951 PRICE 6D BIG DOCKYARD SCRAP METAL Canadian Firms Tender Accepted HUNDREDS OF TONS AWAIT <L mmi • .**.."••'.*••.•_ SHIPMENT TO NEW YORK >S _1~_ •*> JkF**~- _ _P BY HARRY ROSE ______«. -*«V" •*- jE^ataeW (Sunday Royal Gazette reporter) - t^0f^\^mat' " ^ot^^^emi^ , st-A*?*" ' * _, The contents of H.M. Dockyard's machine shops —including what is believed to amount to hundreds of tons of valuable scrap metal—have been sold to a Canadian scrap metal firm. At present great piles of scrap metal ami machinery we lined up along the dockyard camber awaiting shipment^ te ~; JfPB New York where it will be used for various manufacturing purposes. The firm awarded the contract for the purchase of the dockyard material is Joseph Simon (Bermuda) Ltd- which operates from Halifax, Nova Scotia, but has aeents representing them here. Their tender was accepted from many submitted by would-be buyers In Mr. Joseph Simon (below), smiling p jrchaser of H.M* Dockyard's- scrap metal many parts of tbe world. and machinery, looked pleased'with his acquisition when he was photographed by The With a world shortage of fer-| last man to leave the dockyard Sunday Royal Gazette during the week. rous and non-ferrous metals there after its closure." The picture above shows part of ths metal which wilt soon be shipped to the was brisk bidding for the valuable Mr. Simon, who has a team of dockyard machinery and scrap. about 10 workmen clearing out United States. it is understood. the scrap metal and machinery Picture at right shows a varied mixture of heavy scrap, piled up on the dockyard and assembling it on the camber, camber ready for shipment. Other picture; on page two. How Much Profit? will be here for another two U.N. FORCES I Rumours have been circulating months, he estimates, by which Statin? that there had been in Bermuda that the Canadian time a ship will have arrived to some exaggeration as to the WITHIN 2 MILES IS HIS EASTER buy**r, who has already sold the load aad take the material to hi; amount of material he has pur­ material to American buyers, has clients in New York. chased from tbe dockyard, Mr. made more than a million dollars Simon added that some 18,000 I OF PARALLEL profit on the dral. No Bermudians Ions of metal lad been shipped When I interviewed Mr. Joseph j Involved lo England by fhe naval authori­ EGG A RECORD? Simon, president of the Canadian ties. TOKYO, March 24 (Reuter) firm, during the week he declined He said: "Th*-re is no Bermu- Asked what price he paid for to comment on the sum involved. I dian involved lit this deal." But. the dockyard material and wheth­ |—United Nations tank spear- Mr. Lancelot Furbert, bus driver ond spare-time poultry- He disclosed, howrvrr, that the he added: "Bermudians were er he would Rive an estimate Of j heads pushed to within two man, has what he claims to be probably the biggest hen's egg tbe tonnage involved, Mr. Simon material will be shipped within given the opportunity to quote on | miles of the 38th parallel on to be laid in Bermuda. the next two months^o New York anything they wanted from the said he had no com ment to make where his firm has sold it. dod-yenL** He also declined to say how the central Korean front today. Seven7and-a-quarter inches in circumference, the outsize ''The staff will be put into the Mr. Simon's firm is represent- much had been netted lay the.re­ egg will make its owner' a special- Easter breakfast, he says, ni^nufactur** of all sorts ot|ed in Bermuda by the Holme sale of the machinery and metal The troops dug in on hills either as an omelette or "fust plain scrambled." to his American clients. material and possibly used in the stevedoring Company, Ltd. I overlooking the unmarked Mr. Furbert, who has 40 fowls at his home on Gibb's Hill, defenc- - e _-_-_-__scheme,. " bt_e_ ____said• , addin- A* *.,og- I ** , "* geographical line. Southampton, had a shock when he entered the chicken house "We are certainly not exporting MrAske. Simod nabou saitd thhies floatinfirm madg doce akn tt te other rnuntri-s which may "attempt" to buy it, but he under- | during the week. One of his hens had quietly laid the giant tarn it against the Western stood it was the desire of thH H egg. He does not know which of his hens was responsible. allies." British Government to take it tc SOMETHING Mr. Simon, who was busy England. "It was either a Barred rock or a Rhode Island hen — but I during the week making prepara­ Canadian Premier Pointing to the floating dock, don't know which," he told The Sunday Royal Gazette. "Any­ tions for the assembly of tbe way, whichever one it was, she's welcome to lay some more material ready for shipment, re­ he commented' "As you can see IN THE WIND marked that there had been "no It is already under steam anr* Here On Holiday like it." trouble to find a buyer" for the ready to sail. There's a gang of Secrecy surrounded a Mr. Furbert has been keeping chickens for about three dockyard material which consists men on it now and I understand meeting held at H.M. Dock­ years and sells some of his eggs to neighbours. of ferrous and non-ferrous metals it will be towed to the United yard during the week. It The Canadian * Prime Minister. and machinery—much of which Kingdom as a live tug. All the concerned, The Sunday Mr. Louis St. Laurent, is a guest is in good working order. shore booms are disconnected Roval Gazette learns from a I at the Mid-Ocean Club in Tucker's Mr. Simon said he has been ready for sailing." reliable source, the question Town witti his son, Mr. Jean St. buying s**rap metal from H. M. of leaving a "skeleton crew" Laurent. They will stay in the Dockyard since 1Q24. He came "Pleased With Deal" behind at the dockyard Colony until March 31 for a "quiet i vacation." here last June to arrange for the Mr. Simon said he i,~ "vei*• which is .scheduled to close handling of the material now r leased with the deal" and bar at tbe end pf this month. awaiting shipment and returned The passages back to Mr. St. Laurent paid a visit tc found the dockyard au-'horitie' Bermuda last year. In January to follow the trans­ extremely pleasant to wo**k with England of several dockyard action through. "They have done everything they employees were suddenly could to assist me in all ways pos­ cancelled. "Not A Newcomer" sible—from the raptain-in-cbarge I'ockyard authorities re- to the casual labourer," he added. mlined silent when asked Explaining that he is "not just about fie matter on Satur­ a newcomer here" Mr. Simon The Canadian scrap metal told me that he first came to Ber­ dealer said he boupht his first day morning. The Civil Worked At 62 Years muda as a tourist in the early load of scrap from the dockyard Secretary told The Sunday as" far back as 1924 and he had Roval Gazette: Hen's. "We have nothing to say He subsequently "went "We hav- taken over the com­ heen dealing with them ever through" the blacksmith anc since. He Is also president of the for the tbne being, bat there plete machine shops, era*-***'", and is romething in the wind." plumber's shops at the dockyard all kinds of scrap," be said, "and International Marine Salvage NOW, HE'S and finally found himself attacner P suppose I will be almost the. Company. to the Naval Stores Department as a casual hand.' OUT OFr ! Alt!.ouch the -Hosing down o the dockyard was "a bit of s blow" to the old man, he is thank- PASS/ON FLOWERS FROM PAR-LA-VilLt i"' or being in good health anc A JOB spirits. "Lei the whole earth sing to _. ''J was one of the founders o the Lord." A sad - faced old man the Somerset Cricket Club," be said. "Oh yes, I -was a strong The beauties of the un*verse walked slowly out of the batsman and all round fielder proclaim the power and main gate at H.M. Dock­ But -Ticket today is not wnat i majesty of the Creator, and the was in my time. They just don' yard during the week, v a *- the "OmnCtition anv more flowers of field and garden In my day there was a stronj reflect, in the pious imagination I waved to an old f rend, Garrison team at Prospect anr of the beholder, the sufferings ind took one, long look St ireor-re's and the Bermuda and triumph of the Saviour. Militia was tough competition "•"tack over h»s shonWer. too." * ,'*jf Most noted of all Is the lovely For 76 - years - old John pa***.|~n flower, with Its three Simons, thot otonee was his stigmas representing the Nails r Frae Easier lilies that held him to the Cross, MB arpwell td fhe place where he five anthers, showing forth His "•ad spent ••-•>?. yenr; as n work­ Mr. Furbert compares his outsize egg with the averaged- five Wound**; it** radiating man. With the dockyard For Hcmswctrd- corona, typifying His Crown of sized "effort" of less ambitious hens.