| Show the institution for 33 bank clerks I 1 who would not wish to bo be a cl elerk clerk erk ill in the service of that beneficent body the tilo directors of the nation national al provincial bank of england th these ese gentlemen state to tho shareholders that they have again voted a bonus of ten per cent upon the salaries of the entire stafi staff under the exe exceptional optional circumstances of the year they have thought it t rl right it to grant an additional bratu gratuity it of five per cent to those officers whose salaries are not regulated by a scale 0 andare and are reviewed periodically to the ofil officers cers composing the iemann der dr of the staff they have given a permanent increase of bah bak salary eap equivalent lv to 5 per cent and the t e scale under which they are remunerated js has also been revised and enlarged one of the shareholders not to be outdone by the directors said sald ile he did rid should havet have been pleased io 6 have I 1 seen sewn greater gratuities given to the staak commenting on this the london civil service dazette gazette exclaims c what a direction and what a shareholder no nd wonder that the bank paid a divid dividend mid wid of 25 per cent per annum for the tho officers must elivd have work worked edwith with awill when so liberally frea irea treated ted tod and cratit gratitude ude will vill always make itself feib felt in this case we wonder how much of the dIvI dividend dond was duo to the emulation of tho the officials in trying to 0 show their appreciation of the gene gone rous lous conduct of the Direct directors orsO if this could bo be demonstrated wo have ab nb no doubt that tile directors would seo that this In increase creaso in the pay of the tiie staff taff was about the be best st jr investment they made during the yeal year yean 7 that thal the tho ils lip giving the twid employed emp loyes a share in the tho prosperity pros bros perit of ail all I 1 ins institution t I 1 i is s almost invariably productive of profit to the same wo we heartily be believe lieve and always rejoice cc to see a recognition of this conviction it may bo added gadded that the bank in question lias has long iong been boon exceptionally prosperous in irk december 1868 it declared a divide dividend nid fid at t ile tilo rate of 8 per cent with witha a bonus equal altogether to 20 per cent bent a year cindi anali nin tin ames es |
