ROBERT OWEN WAS WORTH £26
OULD you answer this question? «"Who was the English social reformer, born in 1771, who became,\at the age of 19, manager of a Manchester cotton mill with 500 hands and arranged the importation of the first raw cotton from the Southern States of America? In 1800 he initiated his great experiment in social and educational reform when he set out to raise the conditions of his underfed, poorlyhoused and ignorant employees. He rebuilt the accommodation of his work people, taught them the value of temperancey and cleanliness, founded for their children the first British infant school and made New Lanark the Mecca of reformers from all over Europe. He is now recognised as a pioneer in almost every field of social reform. He died in 1858." The answer is Robert Owen, and it recently won for Mrs. W. Wright, of Wellington, the record sum of £26 in 2ZB’s "Give it a Name Jackpots" (heard each Monday evening at 8.45), the previous record being £24 in the same session. Mrs. Wright is no stranger to the microphone, having competed successfully in the old "Professor Speedee Jackpot Sessions."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 217, 20 August 1943, Page 13
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191ROBERT OWEN WAS WORTH £26 New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 217, 20 August 1943, Page 13
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