FROM MANSION TO BARN.
LONDON, March 28. Mr Arthur Hopkinson, a member of the House of Commons, recently presented a mansion valued at £30,000 and also 50 houses to the Audinshaw Council. In order to live in a barn he has now di*. * posed of most of his furniture and other possessions at nominal prices and by free gifts. He gave his motor car to his owji chauffeur, and now pays taxi fares wheii he rides. Mr Hopkinson is a son of a Manchester professor, and is a successful engineering employer. He hopes that others will imitate his example, believing that his willingness to show self-sacrifice will re-establish goodwill and confidence between masters and men. He has already, established a profit-sharing scheme by* which his own profits diminish as the out-' put increases, and they could conceivably disappear altogether. * He served as an 1 officer in the war, and was discharged ae unfit. He then rejoined as a private.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3499, 5 April 1921, Page 17
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