OFFICER CREW
MANNING BRITISH MOTOR SHIP EVIDENCE OF UNEMPLOYMENT (Per Pr6ss Associations™ Copyright .) AUCKLAND, October 12. Officers in the British Mercantile Marine do not, as a rule, reel hawsers, scrub decks, batten down hatches, and do other jobs that are the lot of sea men, but they do. all these things onboard the Commonwealth and Dominion Line motor ship “Port Gisborne,” which a rived at Auckland from London this afternoon. Everyone of the eighteen deck hands on this motor ship is a certified. officer, who has shipped as a sailor, for want'of om-r ployment on the bridge,of any other ship. The fact that the Port Gisborne carries an “all officer” crew on deck is a striking illustration of the wholesale unemployment that exists among the seafaring men who art? competent to navigate ships' in any -part of the world. The sailor’s job is better than net job at all in these hard times is the argument they work on, and they probably comfort themselves with the knowledge that other fellow officers who have made a voyage or so as an A.II. are now back on f the bridge again, either in the same company, or with some other. ■ I
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1932, Page 2
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199OFFICER CREW Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1932, Page 2
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