LIVES OF THRIFT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9170, 13 June 1908, Page 6

LIVES OF THRIFT.

A DOMESTIC SERVANT’S CONSOLS. Remarkable letters have reached' the office of a London newspaperfrom readers who wish to enter the National Thrift Society’s competition. To celebrate its thirtieth 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 of thirty years. The lettershave been forwarded to Mr Thomas Bowden Green, Secretary of the National Thrift Society, FinsburyCircus, E. C., to whom all communications on the subject should be addressed. We append outlines of the life’ stories of some of the candidates: — HULL RAILWAY PORTER. Age, fifty-nine. Wages, always under 80s. Married 32 years. Family of six children. Swindled our, of first £IOO saved. Has now £165 in property, and'. £159 14s iu other savings. BURNHAM-ON-CROUCH SHOPKEEPER*. Age, fifty years. Married at eighteen p wages 15s. Fourteen children living. Scared birds on farm as boy. Oysterman at fifteen. Small shopkeeper at twenty. Worked sixteen hours a day. Last year’s takings £1782. Stock worth £I2OO. A DOMESTIC SERVANT. Wages, £lO to £l6 a year. Present place thirty-eight years. Has £173 iu Consols, and £167 iu< savings bank. Bought annuity of £l2.