STUDY OF LONDON POOR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22469, 13 July 1936, Page 17

STUDY OF LONDON POOR

YOUNG INDIAN MILLIONAIRE ENOUGH OF COCKTAIL PARTIES [from a special correspondent] LONDON, Juno 20 A millionaire-financier, Sir Currimbliov Ebrahim, owner of vast property in Bombay, is now in London visiting poor districts and studying social conditions. This 32-year-old Moslem baronet has taken a small flat in Victoria and is attended by one servant. "I have avoided all the ostentation which London seems to expect from rich Indians," Sir Currimbhoy stated. "When 1 was here two years ago 1 sampled the gay life of London. 1 have had enough of night clubs, cocktail parties and meeting maharajahs. "This time 1 am spending my stay in walking the streets of London, dining in popular restaurants, listening to the speakers in Hyde Park and discovering all I can about your man in the street. I find an amazing thing. The poor man in India, in spite of his extreme poverty, is happier than the poor man in England. "The average wage in Bombay is said to be twopence a day. But you can buy 12 Indian cigarettes for a halfpenny. You can get very drunk for fourpence—on tho popular native alcoholic. You can have a haircut for a penny, and go to the cinema for twopence." Sir Currimbhoy says ho cannot find a barber in London to cut his hair like his own native barber in Bombay