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 holding the Crimean Medal, Sebastopol Clasp, Turkish Medal, and China Medal. Arrived in Charleston, 1867, and left in 1890, for Westport, where he became Librarian of the Free Library. While in Charleston he filled many public positions; was Manager and later owner of the Charleston Herald newspaper; Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages; Bailiff of Warden’s and Magistrates’ Courts; and conducted both auctioneering and bookselling businesses.

MACARTHY, THOMAS GEORGE; a pioneer business man at Charleston. He was born in London in 1833 and died in Wellington on 19th August, 1912, and had extensive and valuable interests throughout New Zealand. The Thomas George Macarthy Trust is probably the most important charitable and educational trust in the Dominion. The administration is in the hands of the Public Trustee and the income is distributable annually for such charitable and educational purposes in the Provincial District of Wellington as the Board of Governors may decide. Up to the 31st March, 1940, the sum of £282,447 had been distributed in accordance with the provisions of the trust.

HANNAH, ROBERT; a pioneer of Charleston, where he arrived 21st January, 1868, and took over the “Golden Boot” footwear business of W. G. Jackson on Section 136 in Prince’s Street East. Born at Kilrea, near Belfast, Ireland, in 1846. He sailed thence to Queensland in 1864, with the proverbial shilling, and from there followed the rush to New Zealand—to Charleston, the Mecca of that day. In June of 1874, he left the Coast and founded at Wellington the firm of R. Hannah & Co., the well-known footwear manufacturing business with forty-two retail shops from Whangarei to Invercargill. He died at Wellington, 14th June, 1930, aged 84 years, leaving three sons and four daughters. His wife predeceased him by two years.