HUMOUR NEEDED

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 90, 24 June 1946, Page 2

HUMOUR NEEDED

TRIALS OF A CORSO WORKER OFFICIALDOM IN GREECE Some of the troubles inseparable from the job of administering relief in a country which is slowly struggling back to normalcy are humorously dealt with by Mr J. A. Home, Administrative Officer of the CORSO Relief Unit in Greece, in a letter just received by CORSO Headquarters Wellington. "It takes three signatures to get any supplies from the Medical Stores in Salonica," says Mr Home, "the other day I collected a sewing machine for the local orphanage from the wharf at Salonica. It took me two hours to have the necessary papers signed and counter-signed, and the Port Police were dubious as to whether we should be allowed on the wharf at all. When we did finally reach the shed, the man in charge was not satisfied with the sheaf of orders we handed him and must telephone to double check. I treated him to some double talk in English, as I had no interpreter, but it was a fine effort wasted. "As we pulled away from the shed with the machine on board, I gave him a smile and a wave, but he just stood scratching his head, and I am sure he was saying to himself They've put one over on me.' When we got the machine to Kozani and assembled it at the orphanage it was our turn to scratch our heads it was a boot repairing machine."