“WHAT ABOUT IT?”

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3800, 26 August 1936, Page 7

“WHAT ABOUT IT?”

In the course of an article on the writing of English by Chinese, a Shanghai weekly quotes the following from a Chinese college graduate applying for a position:— Dear Sirs, —I am Wang, it is for my personal benefit that I write to ask for a position in your honourable firm. I have a flexible brain that will adapt itself to your business and in consequence bring good efforts to your honourable selves. My education was impressed upon me in the Pekin University, in which place I graduated number one. I can drive a typewriter with good noise and my English is great. My reference are of the good, and should you hope to see me they will be read by you with great pleasure. My last job left me of itself for the good reason that the large man Was dead. It was on no account a fault of mine. So honourable sirs, what about it? If I dan be of big use to you, I will arrive on some dalte that you should guess. S. L. Wang. It is at any rate satisfactory to know, says the Manchester Guai'dian, that the death of “the large man” was in no sense due to -any efforts or omissions on the part of Mi’ Wang —(he did not even shatter the large man’s nerves by his ability to “drive a typewritex- with good noise.”