Conn's Enterprise

NZ Truth, Issue 1189, 13 September 1928, Page 6

Conn's Enterprise

/^•AZING into the portrait presented Vj here, one might take it to be a ' clever study of geniality, goodheartedness and health, cunningly outlined' m human visage by the master hand of a; skiagrapher. ; '; . ■ ■■ In ; this impression, there is but one mistake; the. picture is not the work- of any artist or photographic genius striving for a masterpiece to portray virility lmbusd with moral excellence. It is merely a common or garden photograph of flfteen-stoner Robert Conn, of Dunedin. • Had 'you, however, seen "Bob" some few years ago there would have been no delusions, for he was then just a sickly frame of nine stone. . • But self - preservation is a ready .sharpener of wits, an d R.C. pu t all; \his- knowledge of chemistry into self-atten-tion.. ...-■.. \ ".;. . ■ ..-. The result was a little enterprise that flourished into a business which stretches overseas. Of course, Conn's a sport! Didn't w< see him at the last meeting of the Otago Hunt CluTj, when, as steward and honorary, judge, he seemed to b« enjoying himself quite as much as the two-year-olds on the course?