£10,000 in "Tips."
"Departing- .Londoners leave behind them nearly C 1.0.000 in ' tips 'at rail wav-.st.at ion.s in (lie week before! Hank Holiday," soys a railway otti- { cial. "It is estimate! that the ' tips 'of a porter during this period ran easily be as much as l<ts. a day." ■'Half a sovereign a day," said a porter at one of the big stations, "can certainly be earned by a willing- man during the rush week. i came on duty at 10.MO ; it's now 1.45, and I've taken 7s. Did. in tips.' One man gave me a penny stamp and a ha'penny, because he had no other change. Rut that's nothing- to the ' 1 ins ' you get from school-boys. One of thr- r . i!-,r-ist a pocket-knife and a penny into my' hand and said, • Take Uiis ;—Tin cleaned out.' "
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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 2 October 1914, Page 2
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138£10,000 in "Tips." Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 2 October 1914, Page 2
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