Well Known Businessman of Canada Honored at Dinner
A dinner in honor of Asher Pierce, vice-president of the Gan Chaim Corporation, a company formed by American Jews to promote the citrus growing industry in Palestine, was given by Mr. Israel Matz, treasurer of the Corporation, at the Astor Hotel, before his departure for Palestine.
While in Palestine, Mr. Pierce, who is well known in Canada as a leading businessman and farm owner, will take charge of the operations of the corporation which was formed a short while ago by a group of leading American Zionists to promote the orange growing industry. The company is capitalized at $500,000 and has already purchased an area of land near Chedera, where orange groves are being planted.
The company was named Gan Chaim in honor of Dr. Chaim Weizmann. Plans for its further activity were discussed at the dinner which was addressed by Mr. Matz, Robert Szold, Ittamar Benavi, Dr. Knowles Ryerson of the United States Department of Agricultur’, a member of the Jewish Agency experts’ commission.
Max Shoolman of Boston is president of the corporation, Laurence N. Levine Secretary.
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