"TIPS."

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13738, 20 May 1910, Page 6

"TIPS."

" Apropci» of the 'reference to "tips" •>,}! irei. the. marine . stewards' case. Mr >*$ FisTier, the Federal Premier, last Jfcek ;tbat he uo ; official views 'i;; whatever en tipi. "..yValkins; up to the £.; Sydney • express at Melbourne in com-* papy.tfith a companion, a porter car- •s_. ried fiis", handbag. He gave the porter «•£, a shilling. '"Surely you don't gite v iipi to railway servanisr"' said * f anion. "Mv dear sir," answered Jit's isher. "I am after co many big ro- >•£ forms that I have np time to tike up C_> such minor reforms as that." Fisher (the "Sydney Daily Telegraph * $ays) thinks that the giving of tips is -$ cne'iof v ho things that will have to j; settle themselves. It would be a good. -3thing if there was a rule about them ;__-£• but tljerc will nnver bo a rule, because j_ f ; he circumstances of each man are aX ways different, arid the measure of tho Wvico rendered will not be eAtimatea iv 'tlio~same way.. When he ivas, years- - _ ago, gravelling with", his wife through " Europe, she'said to. hini that. Scotsman, -_ though, ho was. he was too liberal with ,1 tins-, ."Well." he replied, "yen gm> , the tips.!' . And jrhen she tried she _~. made a worse job of it than he had done,, becaus.o the..in the end proved ihoro liberal than he had 'been. no > had seen a .passenger on a Pacific boat j> give a half-sovereign to a'steward. Tlio steward was at the time reading a \\ newspaper. He didn't oven rai<=© tvs eyes to ihe passenger. The fatt was _ that the passenger hod probably am*, £" below the regular amount. On the ' > Liutic diners he found that a man like - the smoking-room steward would nia»| .-,- quite fabulous amounts. Tliere. cotili - c bo no rule, thouch it was to \y ro- _;' gretted," for the pence of mind of the individual ,md for. the satisfaction of __ the recipient.' that there was not. As , to the abolition of tirj&, it was quite f lreyond hira. He just discussed the f. system' as it was, and from a point or _ V view, within the circle of tho influence ■_. ,of the system. ' " t