LIVES OF THRIFT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 399, 18 June 1908, Page 4

LIVES OF THRIFT.

A Domestic Servant’s

Consols.

Remarkable letters have reached the office of a Eondon newspaper from readers who wish to enter the National’Thrift Society’s competition.

To celebrate its thirteenth anniversary, the Society is offering £3O in prizes (£ls, £lO, and £5) to the three men or women who can show the best record of industrial thrift for a period ot thirty years. The letters have been forwarded to Mr Thomas Bowden Green, Secretary to the National Thrift Society, Finsbury-Circus, E.C., to whom all communications on the subject should be addressedWe append outlines of the life stories of some of the candidates :

HULL RAILWAY PORTKR. Age, fitty-nine. Wages, always under 30s. Married 32 years. Family of six children. Swindled out of first £IOO saved.

Has now £165 in property, and £159 14s in other savings.

BUNHAM-ON-CKOUCH SUOPKKKPKR Age, fifty years. Married at eighteen ; wages 15s Fourteen children living. Scared birds on farm as boy. Oysterman at fifteen. Small shopkeeper at twenty. Worked sixteen hours a day. East year’s takings£i7B2. Stock worth £I2OO. A DOMESTIC SERVANT.

Wages, £lO to £l6 a year. Present place thirty-eight years. Has £173 in Consols, and £167 in savings bank. Bought annuity of £l2.