CHAMPION POTATO PEELER
BIG TASK ON ATLANTIC LINER. A one-time champion potato peeler of the Cunard Line arrived in Durban recently aboard the Mahia. He was Mr J. J. Hickman, now chief cook of the Mahia. In seven years he peeled more than 3.000,000 potatoes for passengers travelling between London and Montreal. In those days potato peeling was a fulltime job. Five men were required to handle the 200 bags which the 1.140 passengers consumed during the voyage. Mr Hickman said ho never tired of the work. Even now his idea of a rest was to peel a bag of potatoes, which took him about an hour. There was an aspect of this work which appealed to him. It was possible to sit down and gossip at the same time. The best potato peelers, he thought camo from Lancashire. It took about four and a-half months to make a man proficient at the work. —“Natal Mercury.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1939, Page 11
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