EARNED £l/10/- A WEEK
nil'll) WORTH 1:45,000 BOLTON, Lancashire, Aug. 27. A 70-year-old Bolton man who never earned more than £1 10s a week left an estate of more than £4-0,000, probale of his will showed to-day. He was Air. Walter Hammond, of Waterloo street, a former engineer’s fitter. Mr. Hammond went to work when lie was Hi and earned only a few shillings until he was 21, but lie showed a positive genius for financial investment, which developed until at the age of -10 he retired with a large fortune. He was a bachelor. Accumulation of money never made Air. Hammond mean. The estate was divided among 32 relatives, all like himself hard-working, inconspicuous Lancashire folk.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19139, 7 October 1936, Page 10
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