HERE’S A JOB!
Farmer Offers Work For “Permanent” Man SHORT HOURS—SHORT WAGES “Here’s a job!” said an elderly member of Auckland’s unemployed | as he hastily opened a letter from the country. It was from* a dairy farmer and contained a reply to an application that the man had forwarded, following the publication of an advertisement for an elderly man to “do general housework and milk a few cows.” This was the reply: “I want a man for this work that will be permanent. I milk for town j supply. “We get up at about 2.30 a.m. ana ! finish milking at about 5 a.m., and have breakfast by 7 a.m. Milk again, j 2 p.m. and tea at 5 p.m. ( “As you can see, work starts and ! finishes early. “You would have eight or ten cows to do, but no shed work. All hand-milking. Wages 15s per week. Reply by return post if you suit. This morning the letter was brought to The Sun Office by its recipient. “I am a good cook and used to housework“he said. “I can also milk. But this beats anything I have seen. I am out of work and cannot get anyth*sjAturanv t I h will wire immediately accepting the position,” he added with a smiling sarcasm that was patueuc m it. weariness.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 457, 12 September 1928, Page 1
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