THE GUIDING HAND.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1966, 24 January 1914, Page 6

THE GUIDING HAND.

ON U.S.S. CO. OPERATIONS. GOOD-BYE TO SIR JAMES MILLS. , Sir James Mills, who recently retired from the position- of managing director for the linion Company, arrived in Wellington from south by the Wahine yesterday morning. Ho proceeds to Auckland by to-day's Main Trunk express, to catch tho Malieno for Sydney on Monday.' Prom Sydney ho will proceed to England by tho Orient line's steamer, via Suez. There was a. representative gathering o Dunedin citizens at tho station to say goodbye to Sir James Mills, the assembly including tiie Mayor (Mr. AV. D. Stewart), Mr. John lloberts, C.M.G., Mr. John Cook, Mr. J. H. Hosking, K.C., Mr. P. C. Neill, Mr. G. B. Bullock, Mr. C. W. Rattray, Mr. C. Holdsworth (managing director of the U.S.S. Company), Mr. D. A. Aiken (general manager), Mr. Hughes (secretary),' Mr. T. W. .Whitson, and Captain Strang. A day or two ago the shore staff at Dunedin and Port Chalmers also said goodbye to Sir James, and it was then announced that they were having prepared for him in England a solid silver servico which will be presented 011 his arrival at Home. The officers of the company ore arranging for a similar presentation. A deputation from the Australian Institute of Marino Engineers waited on Sir James Mills at Wellington yesterday to convey to him, on his retirement from tho position of managing director of tho Union Company, their sense of the high esteem in which 110 is held by members of the institute, and also to wish him bon voyage on the evo of his departure for the Old Country. Mr. J. Cable, president, referred to tho fact that tho Union Company, under Sir James Mills's management, had always been to the fore in adopting the latest ideas in marine engineering, and, in many cases, had been well ahead of any other company in Australasia. Sir James Mills (who is ono of the few life hon. associate members of tho institute), in tho course of his reply, asked the deputation to convey to members hi:; sincere appreciation of the kind sentiments expressed. Later in the day a large number of engineers in the Union Company's service assembled to present Sir James with a token of their esteem.. Mr. John Rankine, chief engineer of the Tera-whiti,-who made , the presentation, referred to the splendid relations existing between the Union Company's engineers and the principals of the 'company.