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[Captain Kong]

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This is from GOOGLE...1954 re: Lord Vestey.

Obituaries
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Vestey, Lord (1883–1954)
The death occurred in London on 5th May of the second Lord Vestey, joint principal of the world-wide Vestey meat, shipping, and allied interests and a well known figure throughout the meat export trade. He was 71 years of age.

Lord Vestey was a son of the late Lord William Vestey and a nephew of Sir Edmund Vestey, Bt., who some 50 years ago together founded the Union Cold Storage and Ice Company of Liverpool Ltd. The firm prospered and expanded, spreading its operations throughout the meat exporting countries until to-day the Vestey group, known as Union International Company, the Blue Star Shipping Line, and Albion Insurance Company, is one of the biggest of its kind in the world. It has made trading profits of £5½ million sterling since the second World War.

Until his death in November last year Sir Edmund Vestey was chairman of the family interests, but since then Lord Vestey had been the principal director of Union International and a director of the Blue Star Line and the Albion Insurance Company. He had been ill only about a week, and before that had gone to his London office at Smithfield meat market for an eight-hour working day. However, when he was in Australia early in 1952 on one of his periodical visits he became seriously ill and spent some time in hospital.

Lord Vestey leaves a widow and two daughters, his only son, Captain the Hon. William Howarth Vestey, having been killed in action in Italy in 1944. The late Captain Vestey married in 1939 Miss Pamela Armstrong, of Victoria, a granddaughter of the late Dame Nellie Melba, and their elder son, Samuel George Armstrong Vestey, now aged 13, is the new peer.
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Young Samuel G.A. Vestey, age 13 in 1954 came on board the New Zealand Star when we were in London with his entourage, he had just taken over the company from his grandfather. His own father having been killed in action.
At least he did his duty in wartime in the Army.

[Captain Kong]

Here is a little more scandal of the VESTEYS.
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The Sunday Times revelations were followed four years later by further scandal in the Vestey family, this time involving not tax but a headless corpse, lesbianism, drugs, alcohol, insanity and depravity. In 1984, Lord Vestey's cousin, Michael Telling, killed his American bisexual wife Monika, butchering her body. Telling was found guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and jailed for life. .
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. And they had the cheek to log me a days pay for getting bevied on the Aussie coast..
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. The history of the VESTEY FAMILY AND BUSINESS is on google. Very Interesting.
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[leratty]

John just as an aside had the plumber into our rented Paris apartment yesterday, talk about laugh & recall unions along with demarcation disputes in the 70-80-90's. There were two things needed doing; one was to replace a dripping washer in the towel drying rack in the bathroom, second relocate partially a water pipe in the kitchen, from yes gospel, across the middle of a power point thus stopping the W/M plug from being inserted. His comment after inspecting these...."you will have to get an electrician as that is their work." I cracked up, so the electrician was sent for. Guess what he said, "non this is a plumbers job." So we now await the plumber again. Where will it end, don't know though having a laugh. Richard

[Robert T. Bush]

On a lighter vein. On the Aronda a B I passenger cargo vessel I saw in the officer's toilet a brass plate that read.

The Louvres should be turned off when using this space.

The reason I was told was that at one meal time a horrible smell was noticed in the dinning saloon and a passenger complained loudly to the Master.

This man a braw Scot said it must be someone performing according to Robbie Burns

"Where ere ye be let yer wind gang free, In church or Chapel let it rattle."

The passenger was not mollified, hence the notice.