“Better Boilermen”
Sir, —I hope Mr J. S. Pollard’s knowledge has been ’improved by the reply given by Mr J. J. Seymour, fuel engineer of the Mines Department in Christchurch. On behalf of the maligned “kings of the boilerhouse,” let me further educate Mr Pollard on one or two points. Many of us bad years of service on the New Zealand Railways, burning all classes of coal on all types of locomotives, and because promotion to .enginedriver in those days was very retarded, we had lots of time (up to-10 years) to perfect the technique of correct stoking, which Mr Pollard asserts is foreign to us. "Noone else may attend his boiler," says Mr Pollard. Anything criminal about that? Whom does he think should interfere with the boilers I am In charge of, and for the safe working of which I alone am responsible to my employer?— Yours, etc., ' THOMAS J. MASTERSON. August 21, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31765, 23 August 1968, Page 12
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