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Items for Workmen.

In factories where pencils aye made numbers a simple method of counting has been devised with a view to saving time and trouble. Strips of wood are employed, having in each 144 grooves, and the workman rapidly rubs a Tiandf ul of pencils along the board, thus filling all the grooves in which the pencils lie similarly to pens on Q> rack. In five seconds a gross may. thus be counted, without the least likelihood of making a mistake. Mr Cornelius Vanderbilt has set an example which is worthy of imitation. He is about to erect a large building close to the - Grand Central Station in New. York, for the j use of the men employed there. It will be provided with a library, reading-room, baths, gymnasium, lecture-room, and other - facilities for education and amusement. This is certainly a step in the light direc--tion; and, as probably food of various kinds will be provided at cheap rates in this Railway Servants' Club House, it will be a boon indeed to the men. The only objection which can be raised to the scheme is that the railway servants will have but little time to avail themselves of the advantages offered them. The hours of porters, shunters, signalmen, &c, are long, - and although there may frequently be intervals of rest during the day, these intervals are too short to enable them to leave - the station.

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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 201, 30 April 1887, Page 6

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Items for Workmen. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 201, 30 April 1887, Page 6

Items for Workmen. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 201, 30 April 1887, Page 6

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