THE POTATO KING.
A ROMANCE OF INDUSTRY. The greatest potato farrniug industry m t)lls country- behind which lies the romantic story of a farm laborer's rise to fame—has been sold, it is stated, to a City of London firm for a sum border■ng upon £2,000,000 says the Daily News. J The business is that of Messrs TV Dennis and Sons, Ltd., the great' Li,,-' oc» lnslnre and Covert Garden firm of poato growers and dealers. The firm owns or farms more than 10,000 acres and the sale is described as the largest agricultural transfer ever made in this country. The purchasers, it is stated, intend to foim a public company to run the business, and that some members of the Dennis family wi u reßMin i(!clltj(ied with it as managers. The head of t !IP firm ia Mr wi „. Dennis, whose life story reads like a lairy tale. Sixty years ago be riddled potatoes on a Lincolnshire farm at less tIVi 1 a WC ° k - ln t,lfi in t"val, with we help of his sons, he has amassed probably a greate] . fnrtune t]]an any farmer in the British .Isles has ever done. ~f. orn r at Horsington, Lincolnshire, in ««, Mr. Dennis was engaged from boyhood in various capacities on a farm, and then became agent to an old-estab-Jisned firm of potato merchants. in 18(0 he began to buy and occupy freehold land, and, appreciating the possibilities of the rich soil of the district, he made potato growing his speciality 'Ten years later, with the help of his son, Mr. Joseph Dennis, he. opened a wholesale dealer's business at Kino's Cross Potato Market, and subsequently established branches at Covent Gardens and Leicester. During the 'eighties he bought up several farms as they came into the market, and i„ 190.0 the family owned approximately 4000 acres. In 1007 the trading and farming interests of the firm were converted into a private limited liability company, the directors ar.r shareholders consisting- of Mr. Denniand his five sons.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1919, Page 9
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333THE POTATO KING. Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1919, Page 9
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