A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921.

ORDER XVII.—BUILDERS, BRICKLAYERS, STONE AND SLATE WORKERS, CONTRACTORS

Sub-order 1.—Builders, Bricklayers, Stone and Slate Workers; Contractors

560.—Employees and Managers

master sinker (mine): usually a contractor who undertakes vertical excavations through strata for mine shafts; supplies or hires plant and machinery; employs necessary labour, e.g., head sinker (561), borer (580) (q.v.); supervises making of trial borings to test probable mineral wealth of prospected mine; is usually an authority on geological surveys.
waywarden: undertakes the maintenance of trenches on a sewage farm under contract; engages and supervises work of labourers, and of bricklayers if trenches are brick lined.

From: A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921,
Ministry of Labour, 1927. Digitised by Peter Christian, August, 2016. This text is in the Public Domain.