Know Their Business
“New Zealand fishermen are particularly wide awake, and they are very much up to date on developments in their industry.” said Commander A. H. Robinson, who is visiting Christchurch in the course of a tour of New Zealand as a representative of an English firm which constructs Diesel engines The main objects of Commander Robinson’s visit is to study the marine conditions for Diesel engines, which arc used extensvely in fishing trawlers “I find that the fishermen of New Zealand are particularly conversant with everything that is going on in Britain, Europe and America in regard to the construction of engines,” he said. “They are great readers of technical magazines, and know their engine* very well. It is certainly a fact that you cannot ‘kid’ them—they reallv know by painful experience what they want.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22341, 28 May 1947, Page 7
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137Know Their Business Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22341, 28 May 1947, Page 7
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