HIS FIRST JOB

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 November 1936, Page 14

HIS FIRST JOB

NEW SOUTH WALES PREMIER. ( Mr. Bertram S. B. Stevens, Premier of New South Wales, was born 47 years ago in Australia of Lancastrian

stock. He is one of a family of 11 children of a carpenter, earned his firsi wages as an organ-blower, and ulti mately, after much study, became z chartered accountant. Ho tells a goqjd story concerning the organ-blowing phase, says a writer ir the “Daily Mail,’’ London. Struck by the already substantia:

: build of “Tubby’’- Stevens when a -J schoolboy, a man who was learning to •jplay the organ gave him the position of • blower, at 4/6 a week. The future premier’s efficiency so i impresesd his patron that he taught i the boy to play the organ. Mr. Stevens had 18 months of organblowing, a fact he was able to to

his first employer, when, 20 years later, as Director of Finance, he met him at a conference of bankers. He told him, too, that he had saved all the money he had thus earned.