ORDEAL FOR NAVVIES.
"This will test flomo of them," a foreman on tlio Petono sewerage works remarked to a pressman. "This" consisted of a depth of about twenty inches of macadamised road," 4ft. in width, and extending from Victoria Street to tho railway station. Several of tho men engaged in swingiag picks were," by their speech, late arrivals from the Motherland, and had previously worked in soft, sand. I3t:t Jackson Street has had many 11 coating of river-bed boulders, and is probably nearly as old as tho Main Hutt ltoad. "You can't keep a 'pint' 011 your pick" said one, as bis instrument rebounded off a stone. "It don't half jar yer 'finds" said another. AJ one end of the works, a little fon.ee Mazes merrily, and a man is constantly employed repairing picks. ■ Onco the r.etal crust is broken through a sigh of relief escapos the workman, for tho rest of tho trench is sand.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1995, 28 February 1914, Page 7
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156ORDEAL FOR NAVVIES. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1995, 28 February 1914, Page 7
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