GENEROSITY ACKNOWLEDGED.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1509, 31 January 1901, Page 16

GENEROSITY ACKNOWLEDGED.

So gratified are the men at the Petone Railwayi Workshops at the recent decision of the Minister for Railways to add sixpence a day to the pay of the artisans in the service throughout the colony, that they have decided to make an. appropriate presentation to Mr Ward, in acknowledgment thereof. The matter haa been on the tapis for nemo time, and now a scheme has been prepared by which each of the railway employees throughout New Zealand who have benefitted by the increase will he given an opportunity of making a sixpeony contribution towards the presentation fund. A similar idea having occurred to the men in the Timaru workshops it is thought that no difficulty will be experienced in getting the North and South to work together in furthering the project. Circulars are therefore being issued by a local committee inviting the co-operation of the workshop artisans, in every part of the colony. Apart from that, it is the intention of the men in the Petone workshops to organise a banquet to the Minister for Railways, at which the presentation will probably be made. As Messrs T. Wilford and G. Fisher, M.H.R.’s, have proved, themselves ever anxious to further the best interests of the railway workers, these gentlemen, also, are to be presented with tokens of esteem and regard on that occasion.