THE COLDEST JOB

Inangahua Times, 30 August 1932, Page 4

THE COLDEST JOB

The relief workers who have clowned tools on the Kaingaroa Plains because their job is too cold , are probably unanimous that there is none colder. Nevertheless, just what constitutes the coldest job is a point so debatable that all people with cold jobs claim theirs to be the coldest. The girl gangs who work in the fields in the Lothians, Scotland, quite unanimously declare that there is no job on earth colder than harvesting cabbages with the bare hands in a field open to the east wind on a bleak, frosty morning before the sun has had time to melt the rime on the leaves. Members of the late Salonika Force are still unanimous that there was no job colder on earth than trying to undo the frozen knotted chains used to secure the horses to their ropes at five o’clock in the morning whenaVardar wind was piercing everyone to the marrow.

When one startes to investigate claims for the coldest job there are so many that it Is quite impossible to make a decision. One parson claims that the coldest job he has ever done is to preach to a congregation of one in a steam-heated church. Missionaries in Canada, on the other hand, claim that the weekly drive to church in a temperature 50 degrees below zero is the-coldest job in their opinion. Old salts are unanimous that up-aloft furlong sail while rounding the Horn is quite the coldest and most fiendish job man has ever devised. Steward on board passenger liners, on the other hand contend that it is nothing to the job of cleaning ont a ship’s “ freezer " before it has been allowed to become properly unfrozen.