ROCKFELLER’S START.

Temuka Leader, Issue 582, 27 May 1909, Page 3

ROCKFELLER’S START.

Mr John D. Eockfellor tells in the current issue of the “World s Work the story of his earliest days, and of how ho began to build up his great wealth. “When I was seven or eight years old,’’ he writes, “I engaged in njy first business enterprise with the assistance of my mother. I owned gome turkeys, and she presented mo with the curds from the milk to feed them. I took care of the birds myself. and sold them all in business-like fashion. My receipts were all profit, as I had nothing to do with the expense account, and my records were kept as carefully as I knew how. We thoroughly enjoyed this little business affair, and I can still close my eyes and distinctly see the gentle and dignified birds walk quietly along the brook and through the woods, cautiously stealing their way to their nests. To this day,l enjoy the sight of a Hock of turkeys, and never miss an opportunity of .studying them/’ The future richest mail in the world left school at sixteen. After “tramping the streets for days and weeks’’ in search of work ho was employed by a merchant, who paid Him £lO for Ins first month’s labour. Before he was twenty Mr Eockfellow entered into partnership with Mr M. B. Clark, an Englishman living at Cleveland, Ohio. They traded as commission merchants, and rapidly achieved success.

At a meeting of the Ashburton Agricultural and Pastoral Association on Tuesday, it was resolved that the Association could not agree to the request of the Timaru Association for assistance in obtaining legislation to ■provide that one of the directors of the Cantorbdry Agricultural College should be elected by South Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Associations anh two by North Canterbury Associations, including Ashburton. A lad of sixteen named Beflti, was shooting on the Port Hills near Lyttelton, on Monday afternoon with his uncle, Ho stayed behind; and when the latter went homo he did not fo> low. A search party wont out and hunted all night, but failed to llnd any trace of him till 7 a.m. Berti, who is the son of a Christchurch publican, was found unconscious, having apparently fallen down a precipitous hillside over fifty feet till stopped by a .flax bush. He was nearly frozen, but no broken bones have been discovered. Though Berti showed good progress towards recovery during the afternoon, v he took a turn for the worst at night and his condition caused (the doctors much anxiety. Thdre are indications that the injuries to his head were unre swrious than was at first suspected, also that some internal injuries had been sustained. At the Supremo Court, Wellington, Dennis Richard Day, aged fourtoe *, wus brought up for sentence for rape 0:1 a little girl. Judge Cooper sail that prisoner belonged to a family in which a criminal taint existed ; in fact, ihe boy could not help himself. The whole family seemed to have no sense of right or wrong, mentally or morally, and it was essential in the public interest that he should be oon'hed somewhere for a long period. The difficulty was whore to send him. He thought the boy should be soundly whippol and then sent to an Industrial School f->r a long period. Hia Honour remar-led (he boy until next day. It is reported that Mr John C. Woolley, of Chicago, tho Prohibition party’s candidate for President in 1000 (who visited Now Zealand some years ago), has renounced the parly and will hereafter become active in one of the old political organisations. Mr Woolley believes that the Prohibition parly, as such, has accomplished all the good it can, and that the most effective temperance work can now lie carried on outside its linen. Ho stales that (lie party served its purpose in bring; ing tlie liquor question to a national issue, and then its influence ended.

In retpml la the divorce procec li ins instituted on behalf of .Miss Aynes Oltawa.v for amiulliiiLT her mArria‘ with Amy Bock, lawyers say, slates the Dunedin correspondent of ihe I vital ton Times, that the proceedings are not absolutely necessary, as n marriayo presupposes a man and a woman as (lie principals, ami as Ix-tvven one others no form of words or s<d of Ai ts can make a marriaye. Nevertheless, 11 1 0 authorities lav it down lhal in Filch a case ( >a tho Nmarcts farce it, is advisable to have a formal annulment by tho Court whilst the evidence is easily obtainable, so as to leave no room for question in after life.