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Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 44, 12 January 1912, Page 16

HS.M.'s tale of the way the banks help, the birth-rate :—"Met Browft in Timarti (M.L.), where I was completing mv twelfth year of servitude with a leading hank. Brown had been slaving tor 13 years in an opposition institution,' which had its head office in London.-' Brown seemed dejected. • Atter a while he told mc his trouble. Contrary to the bank's rules lie had married i some time before (his salary was under £200—-£175 to be exact), and the girl was in hiding in Ohnstchurcli, For several good and sufficient reasons she was getting anxious about sition. 1 regret to say that I advised him to make a clean .breast,of it. H,e didj and' immediately got the sack. He tried jbo'-o-et a joh—but failed, v.dismissed officer and a, married man mostly, docs. In. the end we other clonks* got up a small "purse tor him, anditJhis, together with a hit he had sa-vedi. bought him and his wife two steerage tickets to the Cold Country. The* Lord knows what has I>ecome of them. Tho bank still passes its vote of'thanks to the officers, and pays a roaring dividend."—"Bulletin."