The Personal Note
ALTHOUGH Ships and Shipping may have considerable interest for retired merchant seamen or those on leave it is only when the more personal note is sounded that the layman is aroused. Thus in one of the earlier sessions I became interested at the mention of the Pamir, more especially because I had listened to a report from on board the sailing ship before a voyage round the Horn. In the most recent national linkup I was again enlivened when S. D. Waters dealt with the improvement in the crews’ quarters in the tramps which he had earlier described as the "slums of the sea." The side reflections, or those which lead back into tradition and history, or which project a sudden image of the Clyde workshops producing ships to replace those worn out after 25 years’ service, are more interesting to me than the stream of facts and figures by themselves. I believe that if Mr. Waters were to develop the anecdote and bed his facts and figures down in it his session would gain in popularity.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 728, 26 June 1953, Page 10
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180The Personal Note New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 728, 26 June 1953, Page 10
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