ALL OFFICERS!

Gisborne Times, 13 October 1932, Page 4

ALL OFFICERS!

DECK HANDS ON THE PORT GISBORNE. (Press Association.) AUCKLAND .October 12. Officers in the British Mercantile Marine do not ,as a rule, reel hawsers, scrub decks, batten down hatches and do other Jobs that are the lot of seamen. But they do all these things on board the Commonwealth and Dominion line motor ship Port Gisborne, which arrived at Auckland from London this afternoon. Every one of the IS deckhands on the motor ship is a certificated officer, who has shipped as a sailor for want of employment oti the bridge of any other ship. The fact that the Port Gisborne carries an “all officer" crew on the deck is a striking illustration of the wholesale unemployment that exists among seafaring men who are competent to navigate ships in any part of the world. A sailor's job is better than no job at all in these hard times is the argument they work on and they probably comfort themselves with the knowledge that other fellow officers who have made a voyage or so as an A.B. are now back on the Bridge again, either with the same company or with some other.

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