PLUMBERS & THEIR WAYS.
A perennial jest is far from pleasing, but the jokes about the plumber and his mate, which crop up continually, somehow manage to preserve their freshness in spite of countless reiteration, says an English writer.
The plumber’s alleged dilatoriness, his contemptuous unconcern with submerged kitchens and bathrooms, his ruthless hammering and wrenching at every water pipe within reach, his workaday* rags and his Sunday Rolls Royce, and a host of no less fantastic exaggerations are levelled against this essential member of a community. Lately, however, there have been signs of turning over a new leaf on th-* part of plumbers. A London firm of plumbers, indeed, made use of a forecast of frost to dispel some of the innocent slanders against their profession bv issuing a warning to householders of the disaster that awaits their property if they omit to take immediate steps to consult them ns to tho best means of avoiding the risks of freezing.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19134, 29 July 1930, Page 9
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