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Complaints about the food

Complaints about the food

The quality of food provided for the crew often depended as much on the cleanliness of the vessel as the skill of the cook. Listen to Wally Caldwell describe the inadequate diet he endured on pre-war coal-burning vessels.

Sound file from Sound Archives / Ngā Taonga Kōrero

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Dunmore Press
Reference: Walter Caldwell, Kiwi in a crow's nest. Palmerston North: Dunmore, 1978, p. 90
Cartoon by Peter Watson

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