THE HAWKER WHO ROSE
AUSTRALIA'S GREAT STORE MAN. An Australian who hawked drapery in the wilds of Australia died chief owner of a departmental store at Melbourne worth £3,000,000 and employing 5000 people. , This is the story of Sidney Myey, Who died at 58. As a young man he went to the Bendigo goldfields though he was unable to speak a word of English. By hawking drapery he obtained sufficient capital to buy up two flourishing rival firms, and later he bought the business in Melbourne, which is now the biggest departmental store in the Southern Hemisphere. Melbourne -will remember him, not so much for this store, but the generous use he made of his money. In 1926 he gave the University of Melbourne shares in the store then valued at £50,000. Another £20,000 he gave for an orchestra, and a similar sum for a boulevard along the River Yarra in honour of this centenary year of the State of Victoria.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1934, Page 17 (Supplement)
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