MONEY IN TOBACCO.
WEALTHY MAN’S GIFTS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT, LONDON, Dee. 3. Mr Bernard Baron, chairman of Carrera’s, Ltd., is celebrating Ins seventy-fifth birthday by donating £50,000 to hospitals. He has already given £200,000 this year. Two thousand workers of Carrera s also ieceive a week’s pay. • • Mr Baron is a 'widower. His family are already provided for, and liis sons are wealthy men in the tobacco busi--11 Mr Baron savs that though lie is a Jew he is helping Jewish and Christian charities alike, declaring that the monev was not worth having, ft was only of value for the good it could C \[r. Baron began life in a New York tobacco shop at sixteen shillings a week, and became a millionaire through inventing cigarette-making machines. His benefactions m recent years total £1,000,000.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 December 1925, Page 5
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