WHERE HAMMERS ARE NOT CHEAP
In liis reply to a presentation froin tlio Merchant Service Guild, upon his retirement from tho Northern Steamship Company Ltd. (Auckland), after service from the year 1883,' when Captain McGregor was manager, Captain J. Wilson rei'em/d to tho time when he first went to sea in the BiUtio trade as a boy. Being ice-bound, they lived ashore, and their daily work was shovelling the snow and chipping the top laver ot ice from around the vessel. This was done with small chipping hammers are no' sa cheep.’' to drop the hammer through a hole in the ice, and the master presented him with a heavy crowbar to work with. Tho cold, also tho heavy bar, made work very trying, and next day the master bought him a now chipping hammer with a loop of line to attach round his wrist. “Take care, tne boy, and loop this round your arm, for chipping hammers are no sa cheap.” “There were no awards and overtime in those days,” remarked the speaker, amidst a storm of laughter and ch&if from the nautical gathering.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12659, 20 January 1927, Page 4
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185WHERE HAMMERS ARE NOT CHEAP New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12659, 20 January 1927, Page 4
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