APRIL FOOLS’ DAY PRANK

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 12, 5 April 1927, Page 7

APRIL FOOLS’ DAY PRANK

UNEMPLOYED VICTIMISED A JOB THAT DID NOT EXIST (From Our Resident Correspondent .) WELLINGTON, Monday. That April Fool jokes have their limits is shown by the letter of a correspondent to a Wellington newspaper who was made the victim of a heartless prank on Friday last. An advertisement appeared In a paper of that day offering work to a handyman, “good wages for right man, apply between 8 and 10 a.m. on Saturday, apply house near hosiery factory,” ran the advertisement. The writer, together with others, turned up, and found that no such job existed. “I have not found employment since I arrived in New Zealand almost three months ago,” he wrote, “and in spite of the fact that I am willing to take on any occupation. Everywhere up to now I get told that things are on the quiet side, and that they will take a time to mend. The people I have talked to have listened to me with interest, but I have a wife and four children to keep, and I served five and three-quarter years in the army. I am still willing to do work if it can be obtained. It is costing me £5 a week to live, and I have a 16s weekly pension to do it on. “I hope that the author of the advertisement reads this letter, and will understand that next April 1 he should find some other method of amusing himself.”