Friday, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 31, 1939,
HE MADE MILLIONS-BY ACCIDENT
Bought Dog-track When 1d.-a-Pint
on Beer Forced Sale
AS the greyhounds flashed round the track at Wands- worth Stadium recently Mr. Sidney E. Parkes smiled to himself and thought: "If they hadn't put a penny on the pint of beer I might never have gone to the dogs.'
The "dogs" have been profitable for this tall, broad- shouldered, 50-year-old mystery millionaire and greyhound “king." Few people have ever heard of Mr. Parkes. Although a director of many companies he is not included in the "Directory of Directors,'
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EMPIRE NEWS
PLEA TO INDUSTRY IN NEW ZEALAND
Aueldand.
The Government has asked indus- tries to absorb 8,000 men now en-
Yet he is one of Britain's wealthiest men, llving quietly at gaged on public works for six weeks. Kingston H, Surrey, with his wife and five children.
To-duy he is the owner of four leading London stadiums and train- ing establishments worth £1,090,000. No one har Ruch a large holding In the greyhound business, which he entered "by accident" in 1933.
A BIG FUTURE
Ultimatum To Cripps M.P.s
The object clearly in to lighten the burden of the Employment Fund be- fore the social security scheme.comes Into operation on March 31,
The proposal is criticised by repre- sentatives of industry, who state that they are unable to crente new ar- kets for their goods overnight.
The Socialist leaders recently de- The Government is recruiting arti- ivered their ultimatum to the Cripps sons for its housing scheme in Eng- rebels in the party: "Sever all, can-land, Canada, and Australia, ndvane- nection with the Popular Front or--ing fures when necessary. Get out!"
"It happened like this," Mr. Patkes Auid. In my capacity as a contrne tor, builder, and estate dealer, 1 was given a contract for the erection of
The ultimatum takes the form of a SOUTH AFRICA Wandsworth Stadium.
"When the buildings were com- letter sent by the Party National
who were agent on the authority of the National! pleted, the promoters, associated with some brewery In-Executive Council to Socialist M.P.6 terests, found that they could not who have associated with go ahead because a pemy extra pelled leader, tax had been put on the pint of lorer,
1 was given the opportunity of taking over the stadium myself, and I mid: "Why not?
the LX-
These M.P.s include Mr. Aneurin Thes
weaken
DEFENCE POLICY
CRITICISED
Cape Town, Criticism of the Government's de-
lievan (Ebbw Vale) and Mr. George fence policy came from the Minin Strauss (N. Lambeth).
The pro-Cripps M.Ps are warned terial benches in the Assembly re- against "participating in organisedently when Mr. Du Toit, United the fundamental party member. for Cape Flats, sokl activity against
too vital a matter for a gamble. They principles of the party calculated to the defence of South Africa was far electoral could not net on the assumption of the unity and power of the Socialist movement." the Ministry that war would affect If they do not heed this final warn-South Africa only six months after
take the consequences. the outbreak. ing they mis required.” grey-An early "There's a big future in hounds. Public Interest still groWS and icely, tunt I shall launch out with more developments,"
"So, Indirectly, that penny beer introduced me to the dogs. "Wandsworth did so well that exteruled my interest.
£5,000,000 DEAL
But geyhounds
Parkes only interest.
are
formal denial
Mr. Pirow, Minister of Defence.
SIR STAFFORD'S DENIAL had said last session that for the first Sir Sinfford last night issued line of defence a minimum of 67,000
DIVERGENT OPINIONS have been forthcoming with regard to the pro- he was contem-nelivé Citizen Force men were re- plating any reprisals for his own exquired. Yet the report of the De-posed memorial of his late Majesty King George V, e representation of showed that which is shown In this composite picture on the selected site behind the pulsion or that he was even consider-partment of Defence
rival candi-
only 13,000 men were now available. Abbey. Both the "retful Gothic" of the narrow screen and the crushing weight of the robes worn by the Royal Agure, to be carried out in un- Mr.ing the idea of running Hit
dates agalust Socialist leaders.
weathering marble, have called up so much criticism that Lord Macmillan. He repudiates all intention of JAMAICA -
Chairman of the Memorial Cominittee, has suggested that the matter be afirms
referred back for consideration, the movement and splitting that the very opposite is his avowed plan to unite the Socialist, Co- London operative and Liberal Parties in # determined effort to throw out Mr. al the Chamberlain's Government
As an estate dealer ne hus:
114! salut land Bought
£5,000,000,
Created
South New Я suburb, Molspur Park.
worth
Promoted snore sports grounds than
any other man in the country. next General Election.
Mr. Pakes was humorously secre tive about his rise to millionaire stuttis.
"AR I will say is that my career
Thief Returns Tyre
RICHSVILLE, O.
has been full of thrills," he said. A disappointed thief stale a worn- "I started in a modest way, and out spare tyre from Mayor J. W.
COUNCIL OF 10 FOR TRADE UNION
Kingston. Mr. Bustamente, the labour leader, inding it impossible to manage the James trade union alone, hus ap
pointed a council of if, including
Jin et, to be officers of the union.
Among those appointed is Mr.
Manley, a well-known local barrister
· progressed by getting my teeth into Lytle's automobile, then returned and a former. Rhodes Scholar. a job
when he discovered that even
he
te-
the
"But please don't say I have suc-emild not use it. The mayor reeded by rising early in the min-rimanted police for permitting ing. There's nothing I dislike mure." thief 1p return it.
The Governor, Sir Arthur Richards, demobilised the local forces recently following the calling off of the dock strike.
CONTINENTA
EARNED 45s. WEEK LEFT £2,600
never earned more than 458, a week has left £2,393 of his £2,500 estate to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he died after a road accident
A SOUTHERN RAILWAY platelayer who, it is stated, had
I
It was while he was in hospital that the platelayer, 65-year- old Mr. John Thomas, of Higham, near Rochester, made his will, leaving £50 to each of three relatives, £50 to Mrs. Lydin Wells, { -- at whose house he had lodged for 17 years, and the residue of his estate to the hospital.
BACHELOR
All his working life Mr. Thomas. who was a bachelor, had worked on the railway.
best investment fur n working man. It is believed that most of his money was accumulated in that way.
Flowers Are Canned
He was a non-smoker and took
MELBOURNE, Australia. very little alcohol. His hobby was!
Australian botanists say it with gardening, and he paid special atten-owers and how. Dr. S. Turner, tion to the cultivation of the flower professor of botany at the University garden near the signal box 01 of Melbourne, has perfected a system
| Highman railway station.
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