CHARLESTON
forgetfulness some of the past. “Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers”—with a tinge of regret for the years that have fled, and the many things that have fled with them.
A goldfield’s childhood and youth were not periods of innocence and learning, but the most hectic of its life; not verdant but rainbow-hued; not waiting to do the things that ought not to be done, but leaving undone many that should be done. So it was with Charleston’s life, but with its manhood came the striving for things lawful and right—it succeeded, and saved its soul alive.
Grateful acknowledgment is made of information derived from the publications mentioned below or in the pages, and to those whose names appear below—and to others too numerous to list.
Copies of Charleston Argus; Westport Times and its Historical Supplement; Charleston Herald; Weekly News, Auckland; New Zealand Free Lance; Diamond Jubilee Souvenir of St. John's Church, Westport; The Church in New Zealand, by J. J. Taylor; Shipwrecks, New Zealand Disasters, by Ingram and Wheatley; Te Ika a Maui by Rev. Richard Taylor; Pioneering in New Zealand, by Bank of New South Wales; History of Nelson, by Lowther Broad; The Cyclopedia of New Zealand, 1906; Lucas’s Nelson Almanacs and Handbooks; New Zealand Directory, 1867, by Stevens and Bartholomew; The Diggers’ Story, by Pfaff; Tourist Guide, by Baeyertz; Reminiscences by Arthur Dudley Dobson; The History of Addison’s Flat Goldfields, by D. Moloney; Manual of New Zealand History, by J. H. Wallace; The History of Methodism by Rev. Wm. Morley, D.D.
The Heads of Government Departments, Church Authorities, and Head Offices of Banks; Governing Bodies of Lodges and Friendly Societies; The Chief Librarians of The General Assembly Library, Alexander Turnbull Library, Otago University Library, and Public Libraries.
Secretary of National Historical Research, Department of Internal Affairs; Secretary of Education Board, Nelson; Diocesan Secretary, Church of England, Nelson; Commissioner of Crown Lands, Nelson; District Land Registrar, Nelson.
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