A JAPANESE HETTY GREEN.
Mrs Kiyo Minejima, reputed to be the richest woman in Japan, who died recently in Tokio at the ripe age of 86, has left a, fortune of £2,500,000. -Most of this she made herself, being a shrewd investor of the type of Mrs‘ Hetty Green. Forty years ago her bus. band, a successful pawnbroker, left her This savings, which she at once invested in real estate, and became in time the owner of 570 "acres in the Japanese ('2a.pital. Then she founded several banks anéi trust companies, which she supervised with an il’oll hand. Last Chri.=.tm:2s she gave £50.000 to the city of Tokio to izssist in the cause of education.
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Taihape Daily Times, 10 June 1919, Page 6
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115A JAPANESE HETTY GREEN. Taihape Daily Times, 10 June 1919, Page 6
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