CAT CHANGES LUCK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23225, 24 June 1937, Page 19

CAT CHANGES LUCK

RESCUE FROM TREE Since he rescued a cat from a 60 feet tree an unemployed London painter has received 10 offers of work, five proposals of marriage, and hundreds of letters, many of them containing money. He is Charles Richard Waite, aged 35, of Alexandra road, W., and recently he told the News of the World that he had decided to accept the first offer of work which he had received.

“It was from Frances, Countess of "Warwick,” he stated, “ to become estate painter at Easton Lodge, Dunmow, Essex.

“The Countess has offered me a cottage on the estate, in which my widowed mother and I can live, and as my main anxiety is to look after her, I have accepted it. I think it was very generous of the countess.

“I am very grateful to all those people who have written to me. The money they sent —it must amount to £4O by now—will be very carefully used. I have been able to get myself some very badly needed clothes and to pay off some debts, “The proposals came from girls I have never met, and I’m certainly not going in for marriage that way —if ever Ido so.”