THRIFT AMONG RAILWAY EMPLOYES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2209, 4 September 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

THRIFT AMONG RAILWAY EMPLOYES.

In London, recently, the Lord Chancellor presided over a large meeting at the Can-non-street Hotel, of depositors in the provident savings banks in connection with the South-Eastern and the Metropolitan Railway companies. He was accompanied by Lady Herschell. The chairman said a saving and thrifty set of men in the employ of a railway company was good for the company and for the public who travelled by it. The temptations to spend were far greater than the opportunities to save, and this applied not to any one class of the community ; and in the profession to which he belonged it was more marked, perhaps, than among the working classes. T,here was nothing like beginntng thrifty habits while persons were young, and he was glad to see that of the 3,000 depositors in the South-Eastern Railway Provident Bank 280 were children. There were 9000 persons in the employ of the South-Eastern Railway Company ; there wan room, therefore, for an improvement in the number of depositors, and he would ask each to bring others in to share the benefits, which they might do without any detriment to themselves. The depositors of small amounts had of late years fallen off, which was the only thing in connection with the bank that was not satisfactory.

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