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

Mr. Charles Bills

Mr. Charles Bills was born in Brighton, England, and accompanied his father to Dunedin by the ship “Warrior Queen,” in 1866, when he was fourteen years of age. He knew a great deal about birds, and had a great liking for them, and shortly after his arrival he was employed by the Acclimatisation Society to obtain various species for its purposes. Subsequently he was employed by Messrs Crust and Crust, but left their service to start the wire woven-mattress industry, with which his name became so intimately and honourably connected. Mr. Bills was the first to start this business in the Australasian colonies, and his brothers subsequently introduced it in Australia. Mr. Bills was popular with all classes of the community as a man of high personal character and much mechanical ingenuity. He was a Freemason of many years' standing, and a prominent member of the Caledonian Society. He died on the 13th of January, 1904, after a short
Four Generations: The Late Mr. C. Bills, His Mother, Daughter, And Grandchild.

Four Generations: The Late Mr. C. Bills, His Mother, Daughter, And Grandchild.

illness, at the age of fifty-one, leaving a widow and a family of four daughters and one son.