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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 172, 1 August 1901, Page 3

The relations between Messrs Anthony Hordern and Sons, of Sydney, and their employees, seems t.p ho governed less by the rnerq cash nexus ” than is too commonly the case nowadays, “You may say this,” said Mr Sami. Hordern to a Sydney Morning Herald report-ora day or two after the big fire, “ that I have the best set of workpeople that is to be found in Australia. My men at the iron foundry to-day sent me a message saying that they would continue working from one o’clock this afternoon to get everything ready for Monday on condition that I did not pay them. They wished to show me practical sympathy. I cannot tell you how much it touched me, because these men are laboring men. E[ad they asked for time and a half for \y.orking overtime I should not have refused it. But though I appreciated their splendid offer I had to decline it; f could not allow thorn to ho the losors. Another of my men, who has been with me sixteen or twenty years, is placed over a lot of the lady hands. He went to my head man last night and said that perhaps the ‘ governor’ was a little short of money. He then offered to rent a private house which would accommodate all these women, pay therent out of his own pocket, aud set them to work there until things were set going again. I could hardly hofipYO that my people would bo q,o practical in their sympathy as that,”-' BAN you knit ? Here is a rare chance. Baldwin’s 4-ply Beehive 'Wools, in a few good colors, at 3s per lb. All other colors at 20 per cent, less than usun l price.— C. Eosie & Co.