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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Mill, John and Co

Mill, John and Co. , Stevedores and Shipping Agents, Beach Street, Port Chalmers; branches at the Bluff, Dunddin, Oamaru, Timaru, and Wellington. This is one of the largest businesses of its kind in New Zealand. Some times more than 500 men are employed by the firm; the stores and general equipment of the business could not be excelled, and the management is characterised by a thoroughness which guarantees consistent attentiveness to the interests of the firm's customers. In addition to its extensive stevedoring and shipping agency business, the firm is agent at Dunedin, Port Chalmers and Oamaru, for the Greymouth-Port Elizabeth Railway and Coal Company, and it also does a large trade in coal generally. Each branch of the business is under the control of a competent manager, and is so well supplied with all necessary appliances that the firm can compete with assured auccrsa with any other company of stevedores in New Zealand. The business at its headquarters and all its branches is under the general superintendence of Captain James Mill the eldest son of the owner. Captain Mill served his apprenticeship as a mariner in the City Line and with the New Zealand Shipping Company. He took his master's certificate when he was twenty-six years of age, and retired from the sea to take an important position in his father's linn.