A BOY’S INITIATIVE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5039, 13 October 1926, Page 4

A BOY’S INITIATIVE.

STARTED WITH SALE OF FROGS. NOW HAS BALANCE OF £250. For thrift, initiative, and a desire to make headway, the following true story of a boy whose name we are not at liberty to publish (states the Waikato Tiimes), would be hard to beat. When 14 yea,rs of age the boy developed a commercial instinct by catching toads and frogs, which he sold to a local hospital for a few pence each. These coppers he saved until he had accumulated 10s, with which lie, bought a goat. He then commenced to sell the goat’s milk, and soon was able to buy four more goats at l(fe each. Neighhowever, began to complain of the close proximity of thes,e animals, so he sold his stock, getting for them £2 a head.

With the £lO he then purchased a Jersey cow, and with the from the sale of the milk he gradually added to his herd until it comprised five animals of the same breed. By this time he was 16 years of age, and his father apprenticed him to a trade. The boy, however, continued his dairy business, and worked from approximately 4 a.m. till 10 p.m. daily. The strain began to tell on him, however, and finally he was compelled to dispose of hi|s herd in order to enable him to attend night school. He is now but 18 years of age, and the proceeds of his labours have placed him in the fortunate, position of having to his credit a nice little bank balance of £250. Who will say that this youth does not deserve to get on ?