FAT PICKINGS
SYDNEY MEN’S EARNINGS Several men employed at a poulterer’s establishment in a suburb of Sydney are earning £3O a week each plucking fowls. The men have to make the feathers literally fly to earn this money, and to show a greater degree of skill than is generally associated with fowl plucking. One day recently, four men stripped 1167 fowls of every feather. “With the pressure on. all you want to do by the end of the week is just lie down and die.” said one. “But it’s not bad pay. Even allowing for tax, it amounts to £lB a week.” Just to show what he could do, the proprietor of the establishment cleaned and trussed a fowl in 34 seconds —and then apologised for being “a bit out of touch.”—Australian Newsletter.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1945, Page 2
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