BOWLS AND BISCUITS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 679, 3 June 1929, Page 16

BOWLS AND BISCUITS

BUSINESSMAN’S PLANS FOR ISLAND TRIP j Bowls and biscuits will while the i ! South Sea Island hours away for Mr. j ! Gordon Mackenzie Brodle, who is j i passing through Auckland en route for i | Suva by the R.M.S. Niagara. For many years Mr. Brodie has been ; paymaster at Mort’s Dock, Sydney, the biggest engineering dock in the Southern Hemisphere, employing from 1,500 to 1,800 hands. As a partner in the Pacific Biscuit Company, Suva, Mr. Brodie will stay with his brother Malcolm, who is manager of the concern. Started by Mr. Brodie and his brother with a capital of £7,000, the business is now capitalised at half a million sterling—all within nine years! “Business is booming,” Mr. Brodie told The Sun this morning. He will combine business with his holiday trip to Suva. An all-round athlete and an enthusiastic bowler, Mr. Brodie is at present president of the Balmain Bowling Club. He will be in Suva to greet the New South Wales bowlers on their forthcoming visit. Before leaving Sydney Mr. Brodie was given a rousing send-off by members of the sporting fraternity. On his return to Australia Mr. Brodie will resume his work at Mort’s Dock.