MR. MACDONALD'S SHARES.
A BISCUIT ROMANCE. OLD SCHOOLMATE'S GIFT. LONDON, September 11. Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald has been the recipient of 30.000 if 1 preference shares in the firm of McVittie, Price and Co., biscuitmakers, whose capital of £ 1,000,000 is held by seventeen shareholders. Mr. Mac Donald and Sir Alexander Grant, the principal director, were schoolboys together. ' Mr. MaeDonald was a guest at the firm's celebration. He said that his wealth had enabled Sir Alexander Grant to make his hand as open as his heart, for he had always made enormous chari- j table gifts. j As a youthful baker Sir Alexander applied for work at McVittio, Price and Co.'s office. He called every day for a week, and left a note claiming that he could make better cakes than anybody else in Scotland. Finally he was engaged., and worked hard -until he controlled the business.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 224, 20 September 1924, Page 7
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