Comprehensive Cavalcade
A list of those who called during the lunch-hour one day early in January reads like the cast of a modern Cavalcade: A newly demobbed motor mechanic from Northern Ifeland, curious about the prospects of his trade in New Zealand, a business man with executive experience in engineering and the capital to invest in an agricultural implements business, a dressmaker and three dental nurses, two Poles, both studying economics at London University, a dentist, a Post and Telegraph: mechanic, a doctor, a chartered accountant, in’ neat trilby and quiet tie, asking for figures about our secondary industries, a professional violinist whose wife. was, confident that he could make a good living among "so musical a people," the owner of a Rolls and a rich ‘complexion who "thought of. retiring to the ,Antipodes," two Officers of the Indian Army, and a "happy warrior" whose qualification was "Jack of all trades, Guv’nor!"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 349, 1 March 1946, Page 7
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152Comprehensive Cavalcade New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 349, 1 March 1946, Page 7
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