A SENSELESS JOKE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5093, 25 February 1927, Page 3

A SENSELESS JOKE.

SCRUB-CUTTING ADVERTISEMENT. UNEMPLOYED VICTIMISED. “Wanted ten men and cook, for scrub-cutting; 8s day and tucker; long job.—Brown, Henley,” To their chagrin many unemployed ■men have found the above advertisement in the Dunedin “Evening Star on Wednesday evening apparently nothing by a cruel joke. . Two of the applicants called at the "Star” Office next morning and told their story. “We sent a wire on Thursday morning, and went down to Henley by train yesterday. When we arrived the storekeeper produced a bundle o'f letters and telegrams about a foot thick. None oA the three Browns living at Henley would take delivery. They had no scrub-cutting; they' denied that they had inserted the advertisement and one was reported to be looking Tor a job himself. The telegram cost these two men Is 4d, and the return train fare was ,4s 8d each. “We cannot afford that,” they stated. “It made a fool of us, We lost the money' and a day, as we might have struck a job in town that day. We are genuine workers, and we got a knock back there. They are always telling us to go to the country when work is advertised, and we are genuine triers.” “There is not a scrub-cut,ting job that the Henley storekeeper knows of within fifty miles,” one of the men remarked. “Someone must have inserted the advertisement for sport, but there is no sport about it. I would like to see him ‘pulled up.’” To the knowledge of these two men, who are married, six others were victimised to the extent of a fruitless day and a waste of money on Thursday, and another six journeyed down to Henley on Friday.