Keeps Bobbing Up

NZ Truth, Issue 1207, 17 January 1929, Page 4

Keeps Bobbing Up

FICKLE fortune has the happy knack of treating us well. .sometimes, and then, like the changing-- whims of a woman, it turns round and deals an unkind blow, just m case we should become too optimistic and the path too easj'. ' ' Like most, of us. Robert Johnson, of Wellington, has had his ups and downs. Years ago he was manager for A. and T. Burt, Ltd., but a man with Johnson's ability and initiative wasn't content to stay even m that position. With another he created the firm of Johnson and Eglin, Ltd., merchants and general importers, and the business prospered. How could it do otherwise, with a genial and likeable Scot as the head of the concern? A few years ago, however, Johnson lost his partner, whose untimely death left a gap m the firm's control. With, the advent of his sons into the business, Johnson has pushed ahead until fate dealt him another blow. During the recent big city markets fire his premises and stock were completely gutted. While stock can be replaced, office records cannot, but Johnson, with the optimism and dogged determination of his race, is already knee deep setting up his business again. R.J. has a twin brother, and, so the snge3 say, they are alike as two. peas. One is often mistaken for the. "other. Robert's brother is m business m Dunedin. 'Tis said he took up his residence there so the wrong man wouldn't be buttonholed too often, Being a shy man, he became quite embarrassed when strangers came up and said: "Hey, Robert, about that order 'I placed with you yesterday. ..." A southern residence was the easiest solution to the difficulty.