A REMARKABLE CAREER

Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1926, Page 1

A REMARKABLE CAREER

NEW ZEALANDER, NOW A MILLIONAIRE. AUCKLAND, Aug. 30. A millionaire who was working in Auckland as a- journalist; twenty-throe years ago stepped ashore from the Niagara this morning and had his first look at Queen Street since lie left here in the sailing ship Sunlight, at the age of 20, in 1903. He had co-operat-ed with Mr A. Busch, of the Auckland Pure Afilk Supply Company, to sell the first bottled milk in Auckland. He returned to-day as Dr Edward Johnson, millionaire, of London, and is on liis seventh world voyage. At 25 Johnson was a master mariner, and devoted his savings to buying shares in the Standard Oil Company, which owned the ships he sailed in. Dr Johnson is now a big stock-holder in tho Standard Company and also in tlie Hudson Bay Company and the Can-adian-Pacific. Railway Company. When ho left tho sea he took up medical study in London and finished his course in America, where, for five years, he was Professor of Pathology and Immunology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Besides being a master mariner, a master of science, and a doctor of medicine, Dr Johnson holds important positions in American societies for the advancement of science public health, control of cancer, and the Association of Railway Surgeons. He was field representative of the Pasteur Institute with General Pershing’s army, with the rank of major. Recently Dr Johnson attended a conference of scientists in Moscow and another at Amsterdam, and was voted to the chair. Just now he is bound for Alexioo to inspect coffee and rubber plantations, covering 30,000 acres on tbe Gautemala border. Dr Johnson says there is no secret in his success. He felt he was getting on his feet at 28, and ever since has progressed rapidly. He is a. bachelor, a non-smoker and a teetotaller.