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Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 December 1927, Page 5

A random ramble through the pages of “A Dictionary of Occupational Terms,” issued by his Majesty’s Stationery Office, provides as many thrills as a best seller. Many an hour can bo spent in seeking the least possible looking occupations in the index and discovering what they arc. For instance, a “wuzzer” is the gentleman who shovels wet crystals of chemical compounds into the perforated drum of. a hydro extractor machine. A “younker” is a lad on a trawler. A “waster” produces lead massicot — which is a little disappointing if one does not know what lead massicot may be. A “ rattler, ” who enjoys the alternative title of “tumbler,” places castings inside hollow cylinders. A gugman a gymbler, kibbler, or koila walla! What arc they? Nothing more romantic than a quarry brakeman, a maker of chronometer fittings, a crusher of cocoa beans, and a coal trimmer. People do queer things to earn a livelihood. Some open oysters, some open hogsheads, others merely open doors, and yet another branch of tlie great opening industry opens fountain pens. Tt is nice to learn that a living may bo made by turning muffins, and that a competence may be obtained by shelling nuts or linking sausages