LEADER IN INDUSTRY
MR. MORRIS ARRIVES ROMANTIC CAREEIt (By Trtejraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post") AUCKLAND, This Day. Declaring himself a champion of the British workman, British industry, and co-operative Empire effort, Mr. "w. B. Morris, of England, maker of Morris motor-car* and one of tho leading figures in Imperial industry, arrived, from Vancouver by the Aorangi last evening. Giving as the main object of this visit to the Dominion the desire to become personally acquainted with the I conditions here bearing on the activities of the great concern, which he has made a phenomenal success, he hastened to add that he was equally desirous of playing some part as an ambassador of reciprocal trade. Commencing without capital in a bicycle business, Mr. Morris later enter- | ed the field of motor-cycle manufactur- ! ing, and in 1912 he laid the foundation of the motor industry for which he recently refused an offer of £12,000,000 from an American syndicate. To-day lie is seeking by personal experience to meet the needs of the Dominions to the uttermost, and by expansion of the already huge business to add to his 20,----000 English employees.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 24, 30 January 1928, Page 11
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189LEADER IN INDUSTRY Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 24, 30 January 1928, Page 11
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