£lOOO A YEAR AT 25.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2769, 26 March 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)

£IOOO A YEAR AT 25.

Seven years ago, whilst cycling, a Burnley youth named James Mitchell met with an accident, and sprained his .wrist. At that time he was working during the day"as a weaver, and in the evening leaxuiing music with the object of becoming a teacher. His accident upset all this, and he devoted his nights to studying science. In the first year he secured seven fir-st-claas passes, and the next year he won a geology scholarship for South Kensington. At this college he had a successful career, and finished by taking a first-class associateship and winning the Fortes '-medal. In September, 1908, he was appointed by a rubber company in the Malay Peninsula, at a salary of £3OO, for two years, with house and travelling expenses, to go out and investigate the rubber pests and disease, and to advise the company generally. So successful has he been in this work that his services at the end of 12 months were in demand by about eight rubber companies. His employers have just increased Mr. Mitchell’s salary by £6OO, and it is shortly to he raised to £IOOO, with travelling expenses and house..- Mr. Mitchell is only 25 years old.