“ALL OFFICER” CREW
ANY JOB BETTER THAN NONE. PORT GISBORNE’S COMPLEMENT. 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 the 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 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 tho 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 before the mast are now back on the bridge again cither in the same company or with some other,
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 257, 13 October 1932, Page 5
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