FROM STOWAWAY TO MILLIONAIRE.
DEATH OF SIR ROBERT ROPNER. London, July 26. Sir Robert Ropner, the shipbuilder, left £3,015,000. The estate duties'amount to £1,468,000. Ropner was born in Prussia. His parents intended him for the Lutheran Ministry, but he stowed away and landed in England penniless and friendless. He entered the employment of a shipping otlice, and nineteen years later became sole owner of its fleet.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2764, 29 July 1924, Page 3
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66FROM STOWAWAY TO MILLIONAIRE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2764, 29 July 1924, Page 3
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