STRANGE JOBS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 366, 22 February 1937, Page 5

STRANGE JOBS.

Unusual Occupations in New

Zealand.

In an Auckland factory more than 50 people are engaged in making wooden heels for women’s shoes. This unusual occupation is only one of many which have been created in recent years by the development of New Zealand manufacturing. Nowadays most of the corsets. 1 worn by New Zealand women are New’ Zealand macle. One corset factory alone employs' 250 workers. More than IGO New Zealanders are employed in the manufacture of men’s ties and the making of gloves for men and women provides work for 120 people. Investigating officers' of the State Placement Service have found that the manufacture of electric petrol pumps is becoming an important part of modern industry, and about 100 Wellington workers in foundries and factories are making nearly all of [he pumps that are reaching the market. Ice cream cones are among the hardly-considered trifles of everyday life, yet the manufacture of these lit tie edible containers' gives 75 New Zealanders full-time employment. The making of lawn mowers keeps about 100 people busy in Auckland and Christchurch: 150 are engaged in making kettles, billies and other domestic tinware.