GOOD CHRISTMAS GIFT.
MILLIONAIRE TO HIS MEG-
HANDS BUSINESS OVER. H Mr John Borg, a Wall Street stocs. J broker, who is retiring at the age offl 42 years, ha,s made a Christmas pre- j sent of his business to his three em- J ployees. I Mr Borg, who has made two milljou® dollars, will conduct a country paver and play golf. A year -ago he told his employees that he would give J them the business outright if theyM proved, capable of handling it. On December 22 he warped the re-., porters : “Don’t get sobby over this. Two millions isn’t much, but it’s.,, enough for me. I’m separating from business, not out of generosity, but. because I want to enpOy life.” 4 Mr Borg started as an office bov, j making four dollars a week. He con-v' siders his greatest accomplishment is; a golf score of 97. Ji
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4644, 4 January 1924, Page 2
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149GOOD CHRISTMAS GIFT. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4644, 4 January 1924, Page 2
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