GOODWILL TRANSFERRED.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 277, 28 February 1929, Page 2

GOODWILL TRANSFERRED.

FINDING A MAN EMPLOYMENT. Many and ingenious are the pleas put forward by those in search of work and who really desire to find it, but few employers can have been confronted with quite the same lines of petition as that with which a prominent Belfast business man found himself face to face recently, relates a Belfast correspondent. His American mail contained a letter which opened thuswise:—

“It is more than half a centnry since I left Belfast and sailed for New York. On the morning of my leaving your father said to me— “Well, , if you do not find New York or the United States to your liking, there is always a situation for you here.” I thanked him for his kindness and goodwill, and since the spring of ’73 I have been employed in New York city and made Brooklyn (just over the river) my home. Could I ask of you to transfer your father’s goodwill to me to my nephew whom I have never seen, who is out of employment?” It is a long step in the calendar from 1873 to 1928—the Statute of Limitations might apply nearly eight times over—but long as it is it is difficult to know whether to regard the appeal as ingenuous or ingenious. Its author, however, is nothing if not thorough, and his marching orders to his nephew by the same mail were:

It is up to to wash his face, get a clean shave, polish his shoes, put on the best he has in the trunk, and with an assured and smiling look of confidence on his phisog present the note to or the manager, and politely and firmly , get a satisfactory answer to it."

I have not heard whether or not the youth has been engaged, but certainly he cannot say his uncle in America has not depe his best to "get him started.”