CORRESPONDENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1934, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE

DEAF AND DUMB SALESMAN

(TVthe'’Editor).- - Sir,—May 1 trespass on-your pap«®' to inform the .people of Hokitika 1 am a canvasser and. arii de:lf, and wiHj educated at the School for the in- Sumrief, "near Christchurch, HI visited Hokitika two ; years .ago did good business-in r 'house-to-hous®! selling >of , pads ? and : envelopes, a® though I was. riot makirig big I am a cabinet-riiaker. by trade anHl liave been, out ‘of that tfatLe- for years and .am . compelled to earn living as canvasser, to-provide for wife and children. This time I the town, but when I called ori s° m Hi houses, I received a rude shock, informed that T am not deaf an® dufnb, arid 1. -showed the proof, a iicate from idle principal of .{he for Deaf, but they would not I went to the Police Station and .told the Sergeant about, my do® ings arid showed him the I Was informed there Kad been gossip stating I ..am > riot deaf. duirib. -Well! How do they know thaß I ant riot deaf. There are sever hundreds Of. deaf people in New Zea^B land -arid -they haVe- learned- to tal* and to read iips, and hre trying t<H earn a decent living. . They are deaf* but that can’t be’helped,; and I asfl the public to .do their best to assis® those so afflicted. ■ ' : H A number have jeered ’ at me whe* I go to' their homes. Others refusH to come to the door. I do not pres^B people to buy. I do not mind iB they are unable to buy through case* af personal hardship. I thank those* who have helped me, and am very* giateful to them. Hoping the public* will he a little more lenient to an* unfortunate man, I am etc., ■ D. B. ROSS. ■ Hoiktika, Nov. 9. ' I