(To be continued daily.) Romantic- stories are related at Cardiff of the btise fortunes amassed by shipowners and coulowuers during the war. One shipowniuj: firm is reputed to have made profits amounting to £3.000,000. -Many other Onus have also made vast sums. Instances are also told of young clerks who, earning about £3 a week at the beginning of the war. saw their opportunity and invested in the purchase ot old steamers. As a result of their enterprise they have become comparatively wealthy men, residing in country mansions and possessing several motor cars.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 168, 15 July 1916, Page 18
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