A member of the crew of the schooner Margaret W., which arrived in Auckland from Port Stephens on Monday, is probably the lowest paid sailor in Australia or Nevf Zealand (reports the New Zealand Herald). He is Mr Douglas L. Ross, and he re» ceives the sum of Is a month. Mr Ross, who is a solicitor in Dargaville and Deputy. Mayor of that town, has been a member of the schooner’s crew for some time. Ila recently decided to take a three-months* holiday for health reasons, rather paradoxi* cally securing work which entails harder toil than, he has ever attempted. Th<J schooner is to trade around the const for some time, and at the end of the thred months, Mr Ross will draw exactly 3s,
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Otago Witness, Issue 3860, 6 March 1928, Page 58
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