WOMEN COAL HEAVERS
(JSBu IN WEST INDIES. Tho steamer Port' Caroline, which arrived at Auckland from London a few days ago, called at St. Thomas, West Indies, to replenish her bunkers. The work was done by about 200 negro women, who carried the coal in small baskets on their heads. They walked along a plank on to the steamer in single tile, and, after emptying- their baskets into the bunker hatch, they returned to the shore by another gangway for further supplies. It was a case of “many hands make light work,” for in this way the Port Caroline was supplied with 500 tons of coal in seven hours.
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Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 28 March 1927, Page 4
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109WOMEN COAL HEAVERS Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 28 March 1927, Page 4
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