PAPER BOY’S AMBITION.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1922, Page 5

PAPER BOY’S AMBITION.

AND HOW HE REALISED IT. Long ago there was a boy selling newspapers in the streets of * Scarborough, the famous Yorkshire seaside holiday place. Someone asked him what he hoped to be when he grew up. and he said, “I should like to be Mayor of Scarborough.” It was thought a good joke. The other day the boy’s ambition was satisfied. He was installed as Mayor with the chain of office round his neck. Years ago he set up a little draper’s shop with the money he had made in the newspaper business, and before long added to it another shop, where he sold cheap furniture. Gradually the establishment grew until it had branches in York and Hull, and William Boyes became a leading citizen of his native town. Now he has been chosen Mayor. His first act showed that prosperity has not spoiled his character for straightforward dealing. The Mayors, as a rule, attend service at the parish church on the first Sunday after taking office. Mr. Boyes declined to do this; he went to chapel, he said; he was a Primitive Methodist. “But you will only be attending church officially as Mayor,” he was told. “No, no,” he replied, smiling. “I shall go to chapel as usual, not as Mayor, but as William Boyes.”