A Finger in So Many Pies: Hon. Charles Houghton Mills, 1844-1923 by Pat Akerblom, Barry Akerblom. VERY RARE.

A Finger in So Many Pies: Hon. Charles Houghton Mills, 1844-1923 by Pat Akerblom, Barry Akerblom. VERY RARE.

Publisher: P. Akerblom, 2009, first edition.

Very good softback, some minor marks, rubbing and creasing to covers, no owner inscriptions, pages very good, minor marks. 130 pages, illustrated.

Charles Houghton Mills was a member of parliament for Waimea and Wairau, in the South Island of New Zealand. Mills was born in Nelson. The family moved to Wellington in the early 1850s, where his father was Governor of the jail, and where Charles Mills was educated. He was a pupil teacher at Te Aro school. He went to sea for some years, and then worked in mining and farming. Later, Mills was a commission agent. Mills settled in Havelock in 1871. Mills died on 3 April 1923 and was buried at Omaka Cemetery, Blenheim.

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