BRAINS IN BUSINESS,

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17984, 1 April 1930, Page 9

BRAINS IN BUSINESS,

STORY OF AN OXFORD MAN. . £7OOO BY DROPPING THE “R." (From a Correspondent.) LONDON, February A. A story in the Oxford Magazine illustrates a claim that the university man is well fitted for a business career because he is taught to keep his eyes open. “One of the more lackadaisical of undergraduates with plenty of brains, and still more of indolence, went last year to a railway company, the Great Western. He was told by the company that he must get business, experience bv starting at the bottom, and was accordingly sent off as a porter, and later as a booking clerk. After a time this became intolerable to him, and he threw up the job. “The company did not want to lose his brains, and iold him that if each year he could think of one way in which the company could save money he would he paid a salary of £OOO a year. Thereupon he spent a week in London and came back. “Jle iold the company that he noticed the three letters G.W.R. painted on all Hie goods trucks. ‘Everyone knows that you are a railway. Why not in future simply paint the ,two letters G.W. and save money (hat way?' The company accepted this suggestion, and found that they saved £7OOO a year in doing so.”