TO TRY HIS FORTUNE
WOULD COME TO NEW ZEALAND. A communication recently received from Ceylon by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce reads as follows: “t write this with the sincere hope that you would undoubtedly me some help in securing, or recommending, me to a job in one of the plantations, or farms in New Zealand. I am a poor youth, having n great desire to try my fortune outside my shores, and for your information I give the following particulars: 1 am a Eurasian. 23 years of age, and possess a fair education. I am a healthy lad, and am at present a planter with about seven years' experience in tea. rubber, coconut, and I’apawa cultivation, used to roughing out, and willing to work on an agreement. ‘•Should I be successful, it shall he liiv earnest endeavour to give my employers entire satisfaction in the discharge of my duties, and my prayers lor ever situ 11 Lj yours.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12617, 30 November 1926, Page 10
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159TO TRY HIS FORTUNE New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12617, 30 November 1926, Page 10
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