PROMINENT IN BUSINESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 733, 5 August 1929, Page 10

PROMINENT IN BUSINESS

Mr Henry Hayward. president of tf;e Fuller-Hayward Theatres, and also of the New Zealand Picture Supplies , Ltd., is the "b y noise” in the New Zealand entertainment J world.

"Get out on your oxen/* is the advice Mr. Hay ward gives to every ! ■young man xcho xcishes to succeed. j Mr. Hayward has not worked for j anyone else since lie was able to j run small business enterprises on fils own account. Leaving school j at the age of ten, before reaching j the ajje of 30 he had been sue- ! cessively a tobacconist, chocolate- I 'manufacturer, proprietor of market | stalls . managing-director of small touring companies, small newspaper owner, toured as a partner in j grand opera and musical comedy ' companies, and for three years, in j partnership with a big shipping ; corporation, run a floating theatre, | with a scaling capacity of 2.000. around the coasts of Great Britain. In partnership with Mr. T. J. 'West, since the founder of the big Union group of theatres in Australia, Mr. Hayward was one of the first to exploit the cinema in Edinburgh. About 22 years ago he brought an entertainment company out to New Zealand. Thirteen in number, the com pang gave Us first entertainment on a Friday, the Jith of the month: and on its first tour, according to Hr. Hayward, netted in profits approximately I £ 13.000 . Since then. Mr. Ilayward has j never looked back. .t v president of ! a corpora!ion controlling about 7* theatres he can well be called th ; Dominion's premier “ gloom-chaser .