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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15314, 9 September 1920, Page 6

£10,000,000 WOMAN. PARIS, July 15.— One of the' richest women m the world, according to the Avenir, is on her way to Paris. She is Mine. Yono'^Suzuki, owner of steamboat lines, building yards, -and various factories m Japan. She is also^ said to bo evtrcmely pretty. Her fortune, if accurately estimated, eclipses even the pre-war fortune ,of Bertha Krupp. Mme. Yone Suzuki is head of the great firm of Suzuki and Co., of Kobe. Tlie profits of the company during the war have been estimated at £10,000,000. Fifteen years ago Mme. Suzuki was ■ an xmassuming widow, with a shrewd business sense, who sat all day, Japanese fashion, on the mats, sqautting before a diminutive desk. Her enterprises now. embrace steel-works, .camphor-refining, rice importing, and shipbuilding. -