HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR IS DUE.
(To the Editor "N.Z. Times.”) Sir,—ln looking over the ''Sydney Morning Herald" of the 3rd inst., I noticed that one of the speakers at the banquet given in honour of the eghthour jubilee demonstration stated that the eight-hour movement in Australasia was founded bv Mr A. J. Burns, in Otago in 1849. I think that view of the matter is incorrect. Tho movement was started iu Wellington in 1840, and tho credit of founding it is given to Mr Parnell, one of the first arrivals in Wellington. I think that is pretty well known hero. No doubt some of Wellington's early settlers who migrated to Otago in 1848 and 1849, having’ tasted the sweets of the eight-hour system, helped Mr Burns to found it in that province, and, if so. much to their credit bo it said,—l am, etc., JNO. CROWTHER. Wainui-o-mata, October 18th.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5729, 26 October 1905, Page 3
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