1. What does Labour Day commemorate?
2. Who was the London-born, Petone carpenter credited with what Labour Day commemorates?
3. Who said: “ Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice and need“?
4. Labour Weekend is traditionally when vegetable gardens are planted – did you do that and if so what did you plant?
5. What was your job, how old were you when you started it and can you remember how much it paid?
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1. The 40 hour paid work week / 8 hour paid work day.
2. Samuel Parnell
3. Hmmm….. Voltaire?
4. I planted vegies a few weeks ago here in Adelaide, on Labour Day. Some rainbow chard, because I like the colours, and tomatoes. Plus some parsley and some basil. Not much this year, because with a bit of luck we will be home in NZ by Christmas, and my girls and I will be busy planning our new gardens. Each of my girls has her own garden, with a rose in the middle, and some herbs, and space to plant vegies. Just a few at a time, to keep it manageable for them. I wrote about the beginnings of our gardens here: Putting down roots.
5. My first jobs – paper round, babysitting, shop assistant. All while I was at school and university, and all at low low wages. My first ‘proper’ job was as an accountant, just after finishing my degree. It was 1988, I was aged 22, and I was paid $21,000 (I think).
The best job I have is the one for which I receive no money – rearing my lovely girls.
Deborah has nailed it for 1,2 & 3
No 4 Planted main crop spuds and some Dill still a little early for more interestinfg things like zuccini
No. 5 First real job away from home was working in the Ida Valley Central Otago, as a shepherd for a fine gentleman (Ivan Nicholson, died last year) Wages $28 and keep
45 to 50+ hour week Aged 18
Of course you could go out; have a meal, fill the car with petrol and have change from a $2 note
I saved a lot of money at that time
I have never had the luxury of a 40 hour week
1,2,3.. I’ll go with Deb.
4. Planted tomatoes, a mix of garden and handy pots, plus a couple of lavenda bushes. Am saving the passionfruit till the new fence is built.
5. First job in forestry 1963 £12/week, 18 yrs old, labourer. A year later I was officially a trainee and my pay dropped to £9.5.00pw.
JC
1 8 hour day, 40 hour working week
2 Parnell
3 Chris Carter ( you can’t fool me with trick questions)
4 blackberries and boysenberries… to go with the 10lb snapper caught during the break between plantings!
5 law clerk first full time permanent job… the others were part time or holiday jobs. $35 a week, but in my first week: worked the Monday, off crook for the other 4 days ( must have been the stress of it all…) got paid the full $35… all for one days work. The law, I thought: that’s got to be a good lurk: sure beats real work!!
1. Eight hours work eight hours play and eight hours sleep.
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2. Parnell.
3. Voltaire.
4. No garden
5. Boy Seaman Royal Navy ( 15 )
The Training ship was hell on earth.
Turning out at their end of service 92% of the City of London Police and 40% of Londons Metropolitan Police.
Sadly no more..
Wage ??.. Can not remember the Boy Second Class wage but 30 shillings for Boy First Class.
Five bob in hand balance into Post Office Savings Bank. 5 Woodbines for 1 Shilling and Three Pence.
Pint of Scrumpy Six Pence.
1. 40 hour week.
2. Parnell
3. I know who it wouldn’t have been – that artist fellow in Wellington – the dole bludger.
4. Not worh it at this time of the year in London.
5. First proper job was at BNZ Waipukurau started 6 January 1964 (age 17) and stayed with BNZ until end of March 1982. Initial wage was a bit over 8qpunds 8 shillings a week as I recall.
Now this is the quiz to break my barren run here
1) The establishment of the 40 hr week
2) Sam Parrnell
3) Well, I’m still not going to get quotes
4) We planted out some peas and lettuces and sowed another batch of coriander and parsley
5) First job was after school helping on the family plant nursery, first job paid by someone else was a summer job on a vineyard and my first “real” job was research assistant at HortResearch working on apple flesh colour genes. I hadn’t seen the botanical theme until I wrote all that down.