Unloading at Chathams
In four years on the Chatham Islands he had not seen a horse-drawn sled, and although the horse was still used for mustering and racing it had long since been replaced by the motor-vehicle as a normal means of transport, the Rev. Father R. W. Falconer wrote to “The Press.” He was commenting on a report which quoted Mr R. Mahan, a Canterbury reading contractor, as saying that there had been the best response ever seen to a call to unload the motor-vessel Squall, with men coming on horse-drawn sleds, on horseback, and on foot as well as in utility vehicles. That was a romanticism on someone’s part. Father Falconer said. The report had also said he was responsible for organising the labour to unload the vessel. This was not true. “The organisation of local labour for work on the ship and the wharf is in the capable hands of Mr W. Day, Holm and Company’s local agent, who has been doing this job most efficiently for years,” he said.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32457, 18 November 1970, Page 11
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