GERMAN COLONIES
BLUFF SHOULD BE CALLED BRISBANE, M.ty 10. The- State congress oi tho Returned Soldiers' League yesterday carried u motion deprecating all statements favouring a return of tho former Gorman colonies, pledged its full support against any move in tbut direction, and urged tho Commonwealth Government to resist the claims for the return of any colonies.
The State president, Mr. R, D. Huish, said that the demand for colonies by Germany was bluff, ami should be called.
one such page in the story. It was centred in his wife, In 1914, when they celebrated their golden jubilee, he saio "People tell me I've done much in life. I know I've worked hard. But, tlii> best thing 1 eve* Wicomplislico, ami the thing that has given me the greatest happiness, was to win Cetty Spelmati. 1 have had liut one sweetheart, and I'm thankful to say 1 still have her." If the name of Rockefeller was synonymous with money-making :il one period, it was truth fully linked up with extraordinary giving away at another. John D, Rockefeller and his son have tossed the millions about in a vast magnificence of endowment of worthy objects. Up to 1028 the Rockefeller Foundation and the Laura Spelman Memorial had been endowed to the extent, of £">3,200,000, the General Education Hoard £25,800,000, tho Medical Research Institute, £12,000,000, and the University of Chicago •£0,000,000, which, with other gifts, brought the total to over £100,000,000. In the last few years it has been estimated that it had increased to X200,000,000. In 19,'jfi, despite the great outpourings, he said before a Senate Commission that his holdings in vari ous Standard Oil stocks had a market value of £.10,000,000. He was the son of a queer character, a man who had a farm, but who would disappear from it ami return unexpectedly with money, the intervals being tilled with travelling about as a doctor aide to cure cancer. The mother was a pious woman, who struggled hard to make ends meet.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19332, 24 May 1937, Page 5
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