FORTUNE THRICE MISSED
BETTER TIMES COMING Three times, in his life William George Marshford has been on the point of making his fortune, but as often it has eluded his grasp. " Industry in Adversity " could very well be his epitaph. In hard circumstances he has tried to wrest a living, and at last he seems to be on the way to some prosperity. Trees have always appealed to him, and after ten years on a " bald-headed" prairie in Canada he was unable to bear the sight of tree branches being burned in and around his home at Plymouth. " I begged these scraps from them," Mr. Marshford says. " They didn't understand that wood is beautiful to me. From selling painted mottoes on sideways-cut branches to making furniture 1 built up a new livelihood from trees. lam starting the first logging and sawmill camp in England. It is at Old Stoke Church, Revelstoke, where great trees that sheltered the graves of my ancestors have fallen." Before his present more settled existence, Mr. Marshford emigrated to Canada with £BOO capital, lost it, lived four years with Sarsee Indians, planted 6000 sapling trees with Government aid, and cared for them for 10 years—and an afternoon's hailstorm destroyed the lot. He, his wife and sons lived on grass and on nature by fishing and shooting. He arrived in England without footwear.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21906, 15 September 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)
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