BAKER’S CAREER

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1935, Page 11

BAKER’S CAREER

BUILDING UP BIG BUSINESS. ADVICE GIVEN TO SWISS. Mr. Henry Lane Edwards, a director of J. Lyons and Co., died at his desk in his office at Cadby Hill, London, the headquarters. of the company. He was 65. Mr. Edwards had been with the company for thirty-seven years, starting as assistant-manager of the bakery at a time when the firm employed only about 200 people. When he died his own staff numbered more than 1500. He started work at the age of 11, ’and the week before his death returned to his native village, Great Alne, near Alcester, to lay the foundation stone of a young men’s institute. During the Boer war he took charge of the baking for the troops at Aidershot. In the last war he paid an official visi. to Switzerland to show the Swiss how to make bread with lasting qualities, suitable to send to British prisoners of - war ■ in - Germany. -