THE CALL OF THE SEA
SHIP-MATRON CAN'T STAY ASHORE
"The? call of tlic. sea inn been too rnuc'i lor me," 'Thus Miss A. Dale, for 40 years a matrix) of emigrants on ships, explain* eil'lio'r return to work after five months' life (Hi shore.
Before sailing again on the, lonic, m her (-!<! post, tending emigrants travelling under the New Zealand Government's scheme, Miss Dale was interviewed.
"I thought il. would be like a dream to end my days in my little home at I'ortsmoulh," she said, "bill a brief time ashore has proved my expectations to be wrong. "1 found the little house so cramp'.d and n. sense of loneliness canic over int. I wauled the big waves and the rolling seas without the walls of brinks and mortar, juid I became so restless fli.it I could stand it no longer. i "Now [ am back at my old job, and, please God, I may yet* help many a young woman in her efforts to ostabiis'i herself in. a new country." During her long life as matron, .Ml-,s l)ah has sailed nearly 1.750,000 miles.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 27 July 1927, Page 5
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183THE CALL OF THE SEA Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 27 July 1927, Page 5
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