SIR WM. LEVER.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1944, 30 December 1913, Page 4

SIR WM. LEVER.

DUE HERE TO-MORROW. Mr, A. H. Turiibull yesterday r<s» ceivod a wireless message from Sir William Lover, head of the firm of Lever Uros., Ltd,, of Port- Suiiljgl.it, staling that he would arrive in Wellington tomorrow (Wednesday) evening from tho Solomon Islands iu the firm's owu steamer, tho Kulsmbangia. Sir YVilliam Heskoth Lever, who -was Cicated a baronet ill 1011, is ail Hffiiornry Associate of tho Royal Institute of British Artists, chairman of tho Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, awl is chairman of tho widely-ktimvii firm of soap-maters that created Port Sunlight, in Lajic.lshire. Ho was born in Bolton (Lancashire) on September 19, 1851, and :eceived bis education at tho Bolt-on Church Institute. Ho entered b-ia father's business in 1867., and ten years later removed to YYigan, and later to Warrington and Wirra). Ho contested the Wirra'l scat (Parliamentary) in LOT, Birkenhead in 1892, 1894, and 1.8D5, and represented tho Wirral Division (Cheshire) from 1908 to 1010. The firm of Messrs. Lever Bros, is known all over tho world as tho biggest manufacturers of soap in the British Empire. The firm has estensivo interest!! in the South Seas, and employs its own licet of stenniersto collect tho copra from tho various island groups. A mamifactuovy exists in Sydney, and the firm is about to establish a factory at J'otaiic. '■