Discussions took place at the upper echelons of the administration over how to ' provoke ' men to ' volunteer ' as porters.
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The category of messengers and porters was derivative of a wider variety of ' connective ' services.
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Often the caravans were formed by individuals carrying their own trade goods, and small employers who hired just a few porters each.
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The transport of goods was effectuated by donkey drivers, head porters and, occasionally, bull-carts.
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The kirangozi had no substantial power ; the position was more a matter of honour and status, with a few more opportunities for personal gain than were available to regular porters.
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Costs of nursing and doctors' time, input from other staff (secretaries, porters), use of consumables and overheads (administration, cleaning, heating, etc.), and capital costs were allocated per bed-day.
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My point is not that human porters are more efficient than draft animals at transporting goods, but that the superiority of draft animals has been overstated.
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A prolonged delay in supplying guides or porters might succeed in forcing the traveller to stay the night, and provide the opportunity for more complex ceremonies to transfer semangat.
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Labour recruitment at this time was mostly of larger groups of porters and labourers, gathered together by labour recruiters, sometimes with the assistance of chiefs or headmen.
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In other words, ancillary staff—porters and operators of furnaces and incinerators—have no protection whatever in this matter.
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I regret that at present there is a shortage of 40 nursing staff, 28 engineering and works staff, 25 porters, orderlies and domestics.
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I would also like to ask what wages the messengers, porters, and cleaners are being paid.
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They are divided into two classes—the shipmen and the quaymen or porters.
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The porters there are working outdoors in outdoor clothing, and so on.
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The whole of the passengers and porters were geared to it; everyone was geared to it.
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