THE CALL OF THE SEA
SHIP-MATRON CAN’T STAY ASHORE “The call of the sea has been too much for me.” Thus Miss A. Dale, for 40 years a matron of emigrants on ships, explained her return to work after five months’ life on shore. Before sailing again on the lonic, in her old post, tending emrigants travelling un,der the New Zealand Government’s scheme. “I thought it would be like a dream to end my days in my little home at Portsmouth,” she said, “but a brief time ashore has proved my expectations to be wrong. “I found the little house so cramped and a sense of loneliness came over me. I wanted the big waves and the rolling seas without the walls of bricks and mortar., and I became so restless that I could stand it no longer. “Now I am back at my old job, and, please God, I may yet help many a young woman in her efforts to establish herself in a new country.” During her long life as matron, Miss Dale has sailed nearly 1.750,000 miles.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 105, 25 July 1927, Page 7
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180THE CALL OF THE SEA Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 105, 25 July 1927, Page 7
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