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The Nelson Photo News

 

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Introducing...

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Among the electrical fittings at Turnbull and Jones we found storeman Neil Scrimshaw. Neil, a 19-year-old bachelor, has been with the firm 2 ½ years after leaving Waimea College. His interests include slot cars and music.

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Two girls with an extremely interesting job are Sue Edridge and Sandra Silcock, technicians with the D.S.I.R. Entomology Division in Nelson. Sue, who is 19, is single and has lived in Nelson all her life. While at Waiaea College she found a great interest in bugs and insects and left college to take up this position two years ago. Her greatest interests include tramping, softball, indoor basketball and cake decorating. Sandra is 17, single, and comes from Takaka where she attended Takaka District High School. She also loves her job, but outside it her activities include church youth work, swimming, tramping and basketball.

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Jean Fletcher found time on her hands after the marriage of two of her family of three, and so took a part-time job as tea-maker at the D.S.I.R. Entomology Division. Jean and the family came from Auckland eight years ago. Now she has the time she likes knitting, and caravaning.

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Barry Chapman is a fireman at the Nelson station, as was his father before him. He's married and has just become the father of a new son his wife Eileen presented him with recently. Fighting fires seem to run in the blood. His father, Allan, wae a member of the brigade for 35 years and Barry himself has been a member for 11 years, six of them as a volunteer. He fills his leisure time with swimming, shooting and a part-time job.