HARD WORK

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 109, 15 November 1928, Page 10

HARD WORK

SIR JOYNTON SMITH VISIT TO EAST END "(From "Tho Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 2nd October. Sir Joynton Smith, the Australian millionaire,; and at one time proprietor _pf a public house in Wellington, arrived via the United States recently. He has been renewing his acquaintance with the East End of London, and revisiting the ironmonger's shop where he lived as a boy. There was an excited crowd waiting to give him. a good reception. : On tho way to tho city Sir Joynton Smith pointed out some of the streets in which he usod to run as his father's errand boy. "I was always the bad sheep of the family," he said to a companion, '' over sinco I was caught fishing in "Victoria Park and fined five shillings in tho Police Court. I cleared out soon after that, and worked my passage to Australia. My father gave mo ten shillings, and an uncle gave me a pound, and with that thirty shillings as capital I started out to seek my fortune. "I worked hard, I can tell you. I was a steward in a ship for a while, and then a bartender and a waiter. I always had tho vision to sec an opportunity when it came along, and I always took it. I worked hard and saved every penny I could, and then was able to start a little hotel of my own. By the time I was 28 I had'made £10,000, so I sold out and came back to England —and lost nearly every penny of it by three weeks' betting on a system. "So I went to Australia, this time with about £50 capital, and started all over again,' I still worked hard, I still took overy opportunity. I still saved, and so, going from one thing to another, became a racecourse owner, the Lord Mayor of Sydney, and finally a newspaper owner, which was the last thing. Now I'm getting old," he said, "I've had enough of hard work, and I want to enjoy my leisure and my hobbies."