A MODEST IDEAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 10 June 1912, Page 8

A MODEST IDEAL

TO REDUCE THE DRUDGERY OF

LIFE

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.

Received June 10, 11.30 a.m.)

SYDNEY, June JO

The Labor resolutions in favor of a six-hour day and a five-day week were described by Mr Andrew Fisher, Federal Prime Minister, as a modest ideal. Asked if he agreed with the_resolutions he replied that an eminent person had once said, "Hitch your waggon to a star," and added that he believed in trying to reduce the drudgery of life.