On Saturday last, in Wellington, a working-bee was formed to assist in the construction of a reservoir at the Rev. Mother Mary Joseph Aubert's Home of Compassion. Altogether* nearly 300 men and women —a large percentage of whom had given up their half-holiday assembled to carry bugs of sand up a steep hillside. The woi'kers included all the tramway men and corporation employees, who were not on duty during the afternoon, and several members of a gymnastic club. A large number of women toiled with the rest and the whole were under the supervision of the city engineer and his staff. Alt this is the outcome of the example of Lord and Lady Plunket a fortnight previously when set to work to carry rubble up the hill for the reservoir. "So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8984, 19 November 1907, Page 4
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