CHILDREN'S SAVINGS BANKS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 68, 9 March 1876, Page 4

CHILDREN'S SAVINGS BANKS.

" Snyder " gives some advice to little boys in opposition to a paragraph relating to the Auckland Savings Bank, and the success of James Wood, banker, through his careful habits early acquired/ This is what "Soiyder" thinks:— " The celebrated James' Wood here referred to was a rich miser, with a heart ns hard as a nether millstone. A man who accumulated vast sums of money and who never was known to do a generous or kindly act during! the whole course of bis life. It would be very uncomfortable to be where James Wood is located now. Children of Auckland, spend your pen niee in lollies, or ciakes; br fruite,' or marbles, or fishing lines, but never try to become rich and hard hearted like the celebrated James Wood, who is held bp aa an example to you. BeDJamin JFranklyn became from a poor boy President of America. There is no man who has done more to make bis fellow-men callous, cold-hearted, and selfish, ' than BeDJamin Franklyn. < Little boys and girls,' don't save your pence. They are given to you to spend, and you spend them. You must learn by this that you enjoy a double benefit. You not only have your own personal enjoy* roent, but you help to support by your joint pocket monies many a poor wife dsd her family of little ones, ... What would become of the sellers of tofiey, ! and marbles, and pastry, which only a boy's digestion can overcome if you put your pence into a money box. You .see you may die long before you beconae a grown up youDg fellow to spend ypur savings upon. some silly girl,;- or jfor some much worse purpose, or to lend out at interest by which you will perhaps be enabled to sell a man out of his house and home and sew him up. Dear children get all the pocket money you can coax out of your pa's and mk's,~ and then go right away off and upend it, giving part to others less provided, than yourselves. Do this and your h«aV<^ will keep full and tender instead ot being hard and ahriveUed, It

ba quite time foriyou to be eelflsh auo mean, and contemptible, and graapinp, aVd cbld^blopcffdi^lien.you go>o|it;ii)W the world to 'flight rtie'lialtle of life for yourself. And remember Wbafc becam^ of the money Ihe rich Jftmes/VJTopd loft behind him. : 'It was spent by others in indulgence, in sin and kicked ness, iind ;riot6uß|] living; s^ifh bid »nje4/,and ihhorrible "Depend upba' it if James Wood'a peiinieb had gode in ,lollies,v>nd <j.uit,ißQd alleys, •nd.atoneys, it would have been mucbv better for : him and everyone else. „ ,