RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33413, 20 December 1973, Page 20

RANDOM REMINDER

THAT VACANT LOOK

Employment agencies and their employees must enjoy themselves now and again. They handle a fair cross-section of the community, and this in itself should surely provide some diversions. Now and then, they are put upon. A Christchurch agency, very recently, had two visitors—men, of a sort. The lady receptionist asked, in her naturally

pleasant tones, if she could help. It was only when the younger of the visitors replied that she realised he was sadly crippled. He presented a most lopsided appearance, with one shoulder hunched high, back bent; not the most pleasant of spectacles. He spoke. In a strange, unnatural tongue. <l We are,” he said,

“looking for work. We are bellringers from Notre Dame and we are out of employment.” She was taken aback, but only as far as her files, which she began to finger furiously. There • was a doubletake. When she realised that the spokesman for the visitors was the quite straight-backed, in fact eminently presentable, husband of one of her fel-low-workers.