CLEANS 10.000 WINDOWS
WORK AT CRYSTAL PALACE. J . George Wilson is one. of the clean the. windows at the Crystal It seems a simple job until you realiie . that there are 100,000 * panes of-; / which, if placed end bn end, would retch 242 miles. Day after day Wilson swings in a little cradle sometimes 280 ft, from the ground. On windy days he ryprJci g..,> little lower. By the time Wjlson and h» 6 workmates have once rounded ■* jtheur * “Matterhorn” it is time to start all over . ; again. “I suppose I mu?t have attended. to millions of panes in my time—but T; never get a pain myself. It’s, tl|,i hegl* thiest job in the world,” avers Wilson.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1933, Page 11
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