BACKBONE OF COUNTRY.
CLAIM BY ENGINEERS.
"We are told on every side that the farmer is the backbone of the country," 1 said the president of the Wellington branch of the Marine Engineers' Institute, Mr. A. Basire, at a gathering of members, " but if the farmer is the backbone, then the engineers are the legs on which the backbone is supported. We freeze his goods and take - them oversea to the great markets of the world, and if it were not for the engineer the farmer would still be producing in pounds where to-day "he produces in tons.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18471, 7 August 1923, Page 9
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