VIRTUE OF THRIFT.
"A THOUSAND YEARS AGO." Tho rcccntly-appointcd I'cprojentative of Lnbmir in tiif legislative Council was discussing in the Council yesterday our pensions system, ond ho found 501110 fault with it 011 the ground ih.it it encouraged unthriit. It was above nil tilings necesstir.v, ho f.iid, I hot men should bo thrifty, 111'. Jones: Yes. oil ,£2 .1' week, whon t'hftv have iv wife and family to keep! Mr. UarnslKiw: It doesn't mutter what a man gets. If he gets .£2 a week ho should livo on .CI l'.is. Anything else, ho added, meant .1 permanent weakening of the stamina of working men. Jlr. Jones: A thousand years old, that Mr. Earnsluw. 'Dint doesn't mnko nnv difference. Tlioro were some very good mo<i .liviiur a thousand rears nea.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1824, 9 August 1913, Page 4
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129VIRTUE OF THRIFT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1824, 9 August 1913, Page 4
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