OFFICERS AS DECK HANDS
EIGHTEEN ON PORT GISBORNE. SHORTAGE O.F BRIDGE JOBS. (By Telegraph—Press Association). AUCKLAND, Oct. 12. Officers in the British Mercantile Marine do not as a rule reel hawsers, scrub decks, batten down hatches and do other jobs that arc the lot of seamen, but they do all these things on hoard the Commonwealth and Dominion Line motor ship ‘Port 'Gisborne, which arrived at Auckland from London this afternoon. Every one of the 18 deckhands on the motor ship is a certificated officer who has shipped as a sailor for want of employment on the bridge of any other ship. The fact- that the Port Gisborne carries an all officer crew on deck is a striking illustration of the wholesale unemployment that exists among seafaring men who arc 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'A.B. are now back on the bridge again, either in the same company or with some other.
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 13 October 1932, Page 5
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