FORTUNE’S CHANGE
MAN WHO HAD £5701000 A‘YE ARY
NOW SUED FOR TEN FOUNDS
Mr William Taylor, of Sidcup, K ays ho has no quarrel with life. His quarrel is with thc=e who jumped to conclusions when the magistrates at Bromley, Kent, lately ordered him to pay £lO maintenance- arrears due to his wife at the rate of five shillings a week. It was stated in court that Mr Taylor once earned £70,000 a year. •Mr Taylor, who is a handsome mjddie-agf-d man. laughed as he told a Sunday Express correspondent of the tail of his fortune. “I liave had a. great tune, ami have thoroughly en-oyed my life,” lie said. “I have done everything that I possibly could since the day I left my university as a young n.on.
“I have travelled, not as a tour'st, but really seeing foreign places from ■the inside. I have) been in very European country except Sweden, and have stayed at most capitals of the world. In those days I wa« a company director. Chip of the high lights of my life was when I stayed in Russia, when T met many interesting and famous people and was presented to the Tsar.
•‘I have raised cattle' in Western .Vmerica and worked as a lumberman in Canada. AU these things were only s:de-\!ine, 3 to my actual profession of electrical engineer. Tv°w I live in Snloup on a tomparafively small income. 1 live adequately, I work hard, and I run a car. What more can any man need? As a matter of fat in my wealthy days I lived about, here, near Bromley, but the fact does not worry me. Believe me, most .people expect a vieat deal too much of life.
"A popular mistake is that it takes brains to make money.. It does not. It. takes a large bplping of h’ck and a littb ingenuity, that : s all. Tf anything ,at all is disturbing niy peace at . A h /l moment it is the unholy interest in my •'flairs all th : K lias caused. I dislike publicity and only want to be left alone to live quietly. -'A great income is not necessary for anyone. Fifteen shillings a week will I'p.y} .anyone for both health and happiness. Ifow 1 came to owe this particular £lO is a private matter that 1 rwould rot dream of discussing with anyone. 1 '
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1933, Page 7
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396FORTUNE’S CHANGE Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1933, Page 7
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