EXPERT ONION PEELERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20114, 27 November 1928, Page 12

EXPERT ONION PEELERS.

MAN MAKES SMALL FORTUNE. NO TEARS IN FIFTY YEARS. Mr. Peter Tyler, an onion peeler, who lived at Kennington, says a London paper, and left estate of the gross value of £6579. started his unusual business with a capital of 6s. " Together we peeled onions for about 50 years, but they never made us cry." Mr. Tyler's widow staled recently. "We were only just married when my husband started the business. Wo both worked long hours then, and often, with a rope round my waist, I used (o help to pull home the barrows of onions that my husband bought in the market. A sack of onions weighs lewt., and I can still carry one on mv back, though I am 68. " It, was hard work to build up the business, My husband could not read or write, and neither can I. but he was wonderfully quick at reckoning. He used to use signs of his own for figures. Wo peeled the onions for pickle-makers, and my husband could peel 10 or 12 sacks a day. Of late years we have employed about a dozen women at the work." Mrs. Tyler said that, her husband was very generous to poor people in Lambeth and Kennington, and his popularity was shown by the hundreds of mourners and 350 wreaths sent to his funeral. The greater part of the estate is left in trust for tho widow.