Of “Unfortunate” Ancestry.
“All my ancestors have been Austrians but because three of my grandparents were of the Jewish: religion, I can’t find a job here any more and my old mother, a chemist’s widow, cannot support me,” writes a 26-year-old Viennese to a firm in Christchurch. He explains in a letter, .written in good English, that as he is of a Christian family, he has no claim to be helped by the Jewish community, and was “perfectly at a loss now, having no job at all.” In soliciting a position in New Zealand as a salesman, traveller or tennis-trainer, the Austrian claimed that he knew English, German, French and Italian, and that he studied at the Vienna University. A leading tennis club forwarded a reference that the applicant was in the first rank of its members, t he club being among the best in Aus--1 tria.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1938, Page 4
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147Of “Unfortunate” Ancestry. Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1938, Page 4
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