HIS WEALTH FOR OTHERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 March 1921, Page 5

HIS WEALTH FOR OTHERS.

AN M.P.’S SELF-SACRIFICE. PREFERS BARN TO MANSION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 28, 8.30 p.m. London, March 28. Mr. Arthur Hopkinson, a member of the House of Commons, who recently presented a £30,000 mansion, and also thirty houses to the Audinshaw Council, in order to live in a barn, has now disposed of most of his furniture and other possessions at nominal prices, and by free gifts. He gave a motor car to his own chaffeur, and now pays taxi fares when he rides. Mr. Hopkinson is the son of a Manchester professor, and is a successful engineering employer. He hopes that others will imitate his example, believing willingness to show self-sacrifice will re-establish goodwill and confidence between masters and men. He has already established a profit-sharing scheme by which his own profits diminish as the output increases, and could conceivably disappear altogether. He served as an officer in the war, was discharged as unfit, and then rejoined as a private.— Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.