WORK WANTED.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXI, Issue 10921, 22 September 1932, Page 2

WORK WANTED.

TWO UNIQUE APPLICATIONS. A Wellington lady, who has a daughter in. the United States of America, received by a recent mail two copies of applications which had reached an American engineer of the daughter's acquaintance, one from a Burmese, and the other from a Hindu. They are quite unique and certainly amusing. This is the letter from the Burmese: — “Honoured and Ilustrious Sir— You # will please remember me as fifth grade clerk in this office, for which there Is no scope to inflate, and after all my educations in Allahabad University, where I passed B.A. after many sittings. Now this mental effort demands greater area for abilities, but forsooth am doomed with unlucky star in firmament and still serve unceasingly in grade R 5.25-30, less income tax. I have learned much. August Sir and with tribulation acquired arts knowing in science such as ‘The apple must fall to the ground.’ (Isaac Newton). Now, revered Sir, I am what dogs say to rat in tight corner, for domestic troubles come in plural and sometimes triplicate, causing slight earthquake in Heaven-lit household where there is shortage of coin, and to add to this my wife doth bring me in annual incremental successions to the ramifications of this generation, and by the Lord Harry there is no end to this mischief. Reply favourably to your humble, who is straining on beam ends. It is that I will pray for you in anticipation, isn’t it?” The Hindu’s application reads: “As to my all justments I submitted for the metric examination, but failed for the reason which I will describe. To begin with my writing was illegible. This was due ito climatic reasons, for I having come from a warm climate found my fingers very stiff and very disappointing to my wishes. Further I have - received a great shock to my mental system in the shape of my only fond brother. Besides mosSf, honoured Sir I beg to state that I am in very uncomfortable circumstances, being the soul means of support of my fond brother’s seven issues, consisting of three adults and four adulteresses, the latter of which being the bain of my existence, owing to my having to support two of my own wives as well as of their issue, of which misfortune the fememine gender predominates. If by wonderful good fortune these few’simple lines may have your benign countenance and favourable turn- of mind, I the poor menial shall ever pray for the long life and prosperity of yourself as well as your honour’s posthumous olive branches.”