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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11646, 14 August 1916, Page 6

. Remarkable wages are being earned by men in the shipyards of the North of England, One employer stated that thousands of men in the firm were paying in-come-tax on from £350 to £SOO a year. - A few- were able to earn £(J00, while one man since the war started has been earning an average wage of no less than £ls per week. He is what is termed a “leveller,”' and has the happy knack of being able-to persuade recalcitrant plates to lie smoothly and rognlarly. His only tool is a hammer, but his value lies in his knowledge of where to use ifc. The piin.nple on which he works seems to be that which one adopts on trying to get an indentation out of a celluloid ball—that is,indirect pressure exerted on the ’surrounding surfaces. On the activity of this workman depends the rate of progress of many more of nis comrades.