"SEND-OFF" TO MR. E.C.E. MILLS

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 502, 8 May 1909, Page 7

"SEND-OFF" TO MR. E.C.E. MILLS

, At the Commercial Travellers' Club yesterday, a numberiof business-men'assembled to: ■ bid: farewoll to Mr. H. C. E. Mills, president of the club, who 'is' Mofidiiy "on""a' trip', to England ■ and'; America.. : ■ ..-■Mr.- H. C. :Tcwsloy, -who ■ -presided, -. read' i apologies for.abscnco fronrMcssrs. J. Duthio | and-J.: M'Lcllan.v In proposing tho health'of tlier guest, ho; mentioned ' that tho ; spirit : of ramaraderio .had l appeared to lapse; ij±' '-"cbii-V flection -with tho club, but thi3 function :he-. tokened its ■ revival. Mr: Mills had done a; - deal for-.Wellington: in, tho way of' en-; coiiraging sport and by being a sound business man.' ; ;His - business relationships, with tho hardware firms of -tho. city.; had. always been of tho most friendly nature, sis the presence there o£ . representatives of all the houses.would show. On behalf of tho club and business men generally, Mr. . Towsley wished Mr.. Mills a pleasant trip. ' - " ■ -Mr. J-. P. -Luke, on behalf, of tho foundryfirms.- of Wellington, also extended- heartygood wisheß. to Mr.- Mills. ■In speaking "of their guesfc'B good qualities, Mr. Luke said that,-,hp.;.had: jshown his Ability , bythe wayin which he-hadcarried 011 the operations of the/firm of E. W. Mills' and Co, and, when ho returned from his trip abroad, .they .would no. doubt hear of him in municipal and political circles. .' '■;■■■.. ; . . . Messrs. David Nathan and W; G. Duthio also spoke. ' ;Mr.f'Mis thanked those present for hououring him in the way. they had done. Ho owed , his success as a' business man, ho . said, to- tho oxcellent training and good start 'which'hw.parents had given him;