When Christopher Lowe was 13 years old, he decided to go into business to get enough money together to buy a racing cycle worth $300.
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The Canberra Times reported on Christopher's entrepreneurial skills on this day 45 years ago, when the then second-form Canberra High School student had made wooden children's toys for sale at the Jamison Centre Trash-'n'-Treasure markets.
Rocking horses, rope ladders, swords and easels were all on offer at young Christopher's store. $20 would buy a fire-engine-red rocking horse, and they proved so popular that Christopher could buy his cycle.
The Canberra Times reporter suggested the toys' buyers might also claim in the future it was built by a world champion cyclist.
Not quite how it panned out, but Mr Lowe, now 58, again lives in Canberra after a career in IT took him all over the world. He graduated from the Australian National University and his entrepreneurial spirit never left him. He invented the Trekkers' Friend, which helps hikers wheel their packs behind them on long trips.
