Old Money - Nathan, Myers, Wilson, Horton, Winstone

I had 40 years of business. I was never that interested in it. You’ve got to do something in life and I couldn’t think of anything else to do so that’s what I did.

– Douglas Myers

They were old money. Family controlled businesses that grew up with New Zealand. You drank their beer, read their newspapers, shopped in their stores.

– Presenter Bill Ralston

My mother got an irate phone call from one of the [neighbourhood] mothers who said: 'Mrs Myers, how could you let your son sell a chewed piece of bubble gum [to the local kids] for five shillings?', which was a huge amount of money in those days.

– Doug Myers' sister Stephanie Clark, on her nine year-old brother's capitalist spirit