THE ENGLISH CLERK AND WHAT HE HAS TO FACE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12570, 11 May 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE ENGLISH CLERK AND WHAT HE HAS TO FACE.

Oiifl of the minor result. s , of this alien liiV'asbi? . ~ is that English clerks Have ttt catttjjjeiis agsiJisb foreigners who are willing to Wsrk for nothing (says the. writer til ah, artiefe &ij§if CasSeU's Saturday ; J&i3|rilttl}.'i'" l The i jtiiltlr»'," i , scribe -wants,, not Unnaturally, a salary! if ,'S® only small—for ev6h tH<» being Who is fife for 11 ] nothing hut stainp-lickiiig is Worthy -of In# Hf immediately he alters the commercial «M world, whereas his rival' from France, :(kif Jglc many, Austria, or Betgiuiii, who mar be intlch || more valuable than he, regularly faliJi- . ; ; self as a vol oiiiaire; hi} will set a longer or shorter period ,Of «tervic6 i Without ' aHf IJ] recompense whaWWi-j " • -^1 .. AM this he actually - does in ftiany cases. I" HdW fefe6h|thil;:|6riß;; of fotfeijAresffipt ? j| if? was ffefc&ativ deft fated By a »et(jhai« wm in the City London, In conversation wlw ; the writer) he incidentally mentioned ho had received uWut 1506 replies to an s-J» vertislmeflfc for a. vblofitalrej slid stibseqtiefttV ly brought thfelri out in proof o£ his ment. After a gobd dial of persuasion,- JR'ag was induced to lend them, and here they are Jr* 9 ! —a heap of epistles! in French, German, .owl : s|l English. The moot sticking feature letters as ft whole is 'that a good many correspondents | evidently look Upon f their r - stay with us as part of thefc apprenticeship t they want to pick up English—and to 4 miehfe| as possible about our business methods fqr future use ,', in / competing J; a gains'- us.*^4 " Mr. says the writer of a," certifiavte ,^2 (a German), " leaVts my. business on his account, in order t<> go to England to perfects ■ } his knowledge iii ' tin* ' English' Three i rehclimenj.who,' wisely stiek 'to.titerf; own tongue iii making application ioi*. tilt ; ; situation, are in the same boat; they se^et' ally co,ae tto London , lilted Weeks, tw» j||M months, And three moilttis ajrrt,pourAjlp';.)j|| prendre la langue iiiiglaisfe.'f I'reoisfely siBIK&-> Jar is tht object' of another of ottliCjaJhe vaders, \vlid, less ; cautious | than : his ff§fl| ||S patriots, breaks, oitt thus:—"i have beefi live and a-half years clerclc in the. offiw -—Paris. I cattle in London thete : sis Weeks ago to learn to fepea!'-fii^w|^i r fS correctly. I can Write English titiitel*eUiS^S I shall accept td Wtiik its VbfHfataU'e.** > " derful 1 Some of these aliehS acquire Eftghsh^t'v^ as an elephant swallows chocolate creams,|a Without- effort* A German has done tiling in eight- weeks, and yfet-hs do6S,bßfeS^fl brag about it }="=-'/tilajrlilg lit Lftfldoß? N»|g|g two nionthsi 1 have good knowledge fof J UFiiMa EtigUsh langw¥g4Mj?SMji&S^^^M si , ii»i)iiiii!i!iiinni»i>ii»iiiiii.Ti fictwujuiMr .r