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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1978, 7 February 1914, Page 12

■< ■■"" -"'*» "Argus" writes:—Sir,—ln these days of fast-vanishing and soon-forgotten heroes, one is not surprised to read that one Samuel Duncan Pafnell in January, 1840, founded the eight-hours movement, and that the drinking fountain erected at the Public Library entrance in 1893 (by public subscription) to his memory has long since ceased to give relief- to the parched thousands who daily frequent the vicinity, or that the whole fixture is well deserving of tho supremo contempt of the sculptured head which disdainfully looks away from the dry fount beneath, and in the direction of tho newly-erected telephone box at the corner ; with its moro' up-to-date two-pcnce-in-the-slot arrangement. Quito a sermon is hero writ in stone, calling for present-day agitators to seizo upon that- thoy, too, might havo similar memorials erected for their founding of the more novel "stop work" method of getting through a day's toil to their own satisfaction. Gentlemen! Next tine yon require a "best hat" fry the "R. and G." makei It will both style and comfort jivo yon. .Local Msrcera,—Msrf-