The Force of Precept.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1582, 15 December 1885, Page 4

The Force of Precept.

The Wellington Evening Press says that when Mr S. Brown first enteitd upon his Paiknkariki contract on the Wellington and Mauawnln Railway, he found that somo of the men iie employed after receiving Lheir fi r=st weeks' pay, squandered the whole of it m drink, the result being that many oE theui were unable toaresmno work on the following Monday, and the quarrelsomeness was not insignificant. Mr Brown determined that this sort of thing should not continue, and though not a total ahstainer, he very properly conceives it t« be tho duty of every employer of labour to see that those under him should not injure themselves by drink if such a result can be prevented. Consequently he informed them, that the first man absent on the Monday following the pay day, would be dismissed. And he further advised them that instead of spending their earnings m drink, to place them m the savings B.iuk. This good advice was followed, and Mr Brown lias never since had cause to complain of drunkenness on the part of the men. And on one occasion he brought m over £300 to deposit for them m theSavings Bank, being the amount of wages saved. If a few others similarly situated to Mr Brown acted as ho has done, good results would follow.