A PRINCE IN BUSINESS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 December 1925, Page 8

A PRINCE IN BUSINESS.

SCION' OF NOBLE HOUSE. In the •bad 1 oH<' swashbuckling clays the <le Broglies used to keep people' up to time and the mark with the sword' an(l the marshal’s baton j; to-day they • are still keeping people up,to time, but consonant with these' democratic- days they' are—-or at. least one of them is--doing it wit'll tlie ingenious electric . clock--. It is rather -stranger to- British ideas to find a prince at the head of an electric clock'company, with branches' in several countries,'but abroad a prince is not necessarily of t.heVblood r ova Ik, Prince Jacques de. Broglie, who is on the Aorangi en route th Australia, is a scion of the famous French- house. He is head of the Bull- Electric Clock Company, which does business on the Continent, England! andt-Amencd, and ho is now turning his 'attention to the British , .colonies' Keen to' see New Zealaiwi, at present he is pushing through 'to Australia, then on to the East,,but'''he will probably spend some time in-the'Dominion on-his wav back-, some time next year.

The de Broglies originally came from Piedmont in Italy, and really are-an old/family. ’ ’ ' In the 17tli century fuf adyeht-urons. nre'mber of' the familymoved over into France,, and since that day there always been a,.tie.Broglie in the van.'tvlien anything stirring was doing. The de Broglies have been marshals of France, statesmen, soldiers, writers, and) one of them lost his head in the bloody days of the