— Master of Many Trades. —
Sailmakers are in a loft soniewhere, making the few sheets of canvas the modern v^rsel carries ,• brass workers aiv a ttiug and finishing fittings and part.s ; -\nd a score of other kinds of tradesmen are busy in this wonderful hive, each net doii.g toeir part to the completion of , the ship of war, or the yacht, or passen.jer l:n>r that may be in han-d, or for all of them together. Along that river front of three quarters of a mile you may see any clay half a dozen vessels of diverse types in various states of completion.
This might seem a full We's wo-k for any man, but it is the busy and successful man who has time to "do other things." Sir Charles Palmer has been engaged in pushing half a dozen enterprises, connected mostly with the seafaring business — shipping lines and broking and merchanting — and he has been a director of the Suez Canal, and runs a glass wor'cis. He has sat in Parliament for 30 3^e;irs. and for 20 of these has had the honour of representing the town of Jarrow, which he made.-
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Otago Witness, Issue 2689, 27 September 1905, Page 71
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191—Master of Many Trades.— Otago Witness, Issue 2689, 27 September 1905, Page 71
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