CARBON KING
A STORY OF HIS EARLY DAYS. (United Prßw Afliooiation—By Edectnc 'leiegx*pfa—Copyright), (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, September, 2. Obituary.—C. Harold Smith, aged 72 the American millionaire “Carbon King,” on the eve of the completion of his annual holiday. He went to New Zealand at the age of 15 from London, and'- wandered from a lumber camp and was lost in the .bush, where lie lived for three days on fern roots. He reached a Maori encampment and fell in love with a beautiful girl, Rahwedia. When she died, she gave Smith on her deathbed, a greenstone talisman irom her neck which Smith has worn on his watchchain all his life.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1931, Page 6
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