SCRUB-CUTTING JOKE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1927, Page 20

SCRUB-CUTTING JOKE.

unemployed victimised.

"Wanted, ten men and cook, for scrubcutting; S/ day and tucker; long job.— Brown. Henlev."

To their chagrin, many unemployed men have found the abovo advertisement in the Dunedin "Evening Star" on Wednesday evening apparently nothing but a cruel joke.

Two of the applicants called at the "Star" Ollice next morning and told their storv.

"Wo sent a wire on Thursday morning, and went down to Henley by train yesterday. When we arrived the storekeeper produced a bundle of letters and ' telegrams about a foot thick. None of the three Browns living at Henley would take delivery. They had no scrubcutting; they denied that they had inserted the advertisement, and one was reported to be looking for a job him- j self." The telegram cost these two men 1/4. i and the return train fare was 4/S each. ! ' We cannot afford that," they stated. ' "It made a fool of us. We lost the money and n day, as we might havj? struck a job in town that day. Wp are genuine workers, and we got a knock back there. They are always telling us to go to the country when work is advertised, and we are genuine triers." ] "There is not a scrub-cutting iob that | the Henley storekeeper knows of within fifty miles.'' one of the men remarked. "Someone must have inserted the advertisement for sport, but there is no sport about it. I would like to see | him 'pulled up.'" i To the knowledge of these two men. I who are married, six others were vie- ' timised to the extent of a fruitless dav and a waste of money on Thursday, and another six journeyed down to Henley i on Friday. :