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FROM SMALL IDEAS.

The pith jam cartons used so much during the Great War made the fortune of the man who first thought of them. The man who turned a piece of wire so that the cork was held securely in a bottle made another fortune. The pressstud irf a device for gloves which has sold by the million and made several fortunes; while that peculiar little twist in the safety-pin which makes it impossible for the point to do harm made for its fortunate inventor money beyond the dreams of avarice. The idea of making the screw its own gimlet established the fortune of the Chamberlain family, and the dresshook with a hump was a gold mine to at least one man. The man who first thought of fastening boot buttons with Fomething stronger and easier to manipulate than cobblers' thread "struck oil," and everybody knows what fortunes the idea of saving shoe leather by means of variously shaped metal plates has made. The first tin-opener, made necessary by the grow th of the "canning" industry, was also a -winner in the financial race.

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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 126, 30 May 1934, Page 12

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FROM SMALL IDEAS. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 126, 30 May 1934, Page 12

FROM SMALL IDEAS. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 126, 30 May 1934, Page 12