BOY WHO MADE A FORTUNE.
BUYS HIS OLD SCHOOL. By the. purchase from the Earl of Strathmore of 2000 acres in Forfarshire for £lOO.OOO, Mr. James Duncan, the son of a crofter, becomes the owner of his. old school at the village of Douglasi town, the larger part of which passes into his possession. together with ten farms. After leaving school. Air. Dunean was a bank clerk in Forfar and Dundee. Later he joined a firm of East India merchants and went East. His promotion was rapid and he became managing director. As he prospered he began to acquire land on a big scale in his native country.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1921, Page 8
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108BOY WHO MADE A FORTUNE. Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1921, Page 8
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