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Railway Hotel. Knew you would ^ have to send /or me.it ®n| Back from the Big Smoke on a fy few months' visit to personally and r4 on the spot attend to all and sundry 5n of the nucrous Copleyian interests ltJ and cnterpi ises in Wrstraha WaV ter Clarke, chief manager and confi-er dential adviser of Sam Copley, mil-lionaire. Por a quarter of a cen-tury Mr. Clarke has been closely id identified with the only millionaire »r. Western Australia has produced to m date Wc have had alleged We» tralian millionaires before, but Sam m appears :o tx- the only genuine one. ,lt The otliers were mustlv of ti Hampton Plains variety. Squatter to Pearee. who probably unwittingly ,t performed the most philanthropic v. act of his life from a public point lv of 'iew oy dying intestate, and thus ,o. enlarging the State Probate Tax. jj. was undoubtedly the wealthiest man a who has so far died in this State, a Sam Copley made his big rife, it if ed said, in •jcoepting big premiums and ng necessarily big risks in marine in-he surance during the war. when it look-in ed as if tl 5 German submarines in- were going to send to Daw Jones* Tit locker even* Allied craft afloat. Sam's luck srood to him.
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Perth Mirror
Perth, Western Australia, AU
Sat, May 21, 1921
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