MILLIONAIRES.
-EVliiililSouaires are becoming almost as common as dish-water. A writer in the November "Strand" points out tbat tlie weailtih of Messrs. Rockefeliler, Astor,, Morgan, Rothschild, Carnegie, and Stratheoua f-a-r exceeds the total value of the product of British industry for a whole year. Nearly seven miflltobns of workers, toiling six days a week, produced a net output of Biritish industry for 1910-11 of 712 million pounds. These six men would be aiblo to- pay for nil'l the result of a year's toil accumulated by a whole nation, of toilers. They could buy up all the wealth of a .year— all the machinery, all the manufactured goods-, all the steel, all tlie iron, all the tobacco, all the i sugar. That is what such wealth a* I theirs means. g|s&iiij> | -c<, ' ... . . '■":. 1 :.4 , J-
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10517, 4 January 1912, Page 4
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134MILLIONAIRES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10517, 4 January 1912, Page 4
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