TOBACCO KING’S MUNIFICENCE

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2314, 5 December 1925, Page 9

TOBACCO KING’S MUNIFICENCE

RECENT BENEFACTIONS TOTAL A MILLION. [By Electric Cable —Copyright,] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Friday 7 p,m.) LONDON December 3. Mr Bernard Baron, chairman of Carreras Limited (tobacco manufacturers) is celebrating his seventy-fifth birthday by donating £50,000 to hospitals. He has already given £300,000 this year. Two thousand workers of Carreras Ltd., also receive a week’s wages. Mr Baron, is a widower with a family provided for and his sons are wealthy men in the tobacco business. Mr Baron says though he is a Jew, he is helping Jewish and Christian charities alike, declaring that money is not worth having, and is only of value for the good it can do. Mr 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 in recent years total a million sterling. BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY GIFT OF £IOO,OOO PROM NEWSPAPER MAGNATE. LONDON December 3. Sir Charles Hyde has presented Birmingham University with £IOO,OOO unconditionally. Sir Charles Hyde is proprietor of ‘■The Birmingham Daily Post” and other newspapers. He is Warden of the Guild of Undergraduates of Birmingham Un.versity.