Sailors Vs nurses

This is story from Ceylon (Sri Lanka as she was known then )during WW2 when she was a colony under British rule.

The Government Stores handling scarce goods and material received two urgent requests for the identical material, white twill cloth: one from the Admiralty on behalf of the Navy and the other from the Director of Health Services on behalf of the Nurses who needed new skirts to replace bloodied ones.

Understandably, this being wartime, twill cloth was hard to come by and the material in stock could hardly service one request. The Officer in Charge of stores could not persuade either the Admiralty or the Director of HS to give way in favour of one or the other and he, in desperation referred the matter to the Governor's Office.

His Excellency, having given much thought to this vexing problem, wrote this minute on the papers he received:

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"THE NURSES SKIRTS TO BE HELD UP TILL THE NEEDS OF THE SAILORS ARE SATISFIED"