Bob Schmall wrote:

"njfbadger badger" wrote in message
...
Little bro came by yesterday, doing an interesting job at the moment,
seems one place is being demolished, and a lot of old hard wood is being
burnt, inc.some rose wood, teak and oak, burnt? yep gov't won't allow it
to be sold, incase someone makes a profit!
Good Lord how I hate that kind of waste, typical British Gov't/Royal Navy
attitude!

niel.

Niel:
Given the Royal Navy's long record of "enlightened self-interest" re its
contractors*, it is easy to understand the origin of the policy.
Furthermore, given the great tradition of "too much is not enough" re
government's corrective actions, the burn-on-site regulation is also
understandable. However, understandable and reasonable are two different
things, eh?

Bob
* See Patrick O'Brien's well-researched fiction for examples.

"Nay never lift up your hands to me
There's no clean hands in the trade.
But steal in measure quoth Brigantine
There's measure in all things made."
"King Henry VIII and the Shipwrights" --
Rudyard Kipling

Wonder if anyone would notice if some of that wood just walked off?

--RC