Thursday, June 18, 2015

what would Charles Rooking Carter do....




Carter was born in Kendal, Westmorland, the son of a builder, John Carter. Carter lived in London from the age of 21 and through adult education classes at the Westminster Institution, broadened his knowledge and outlook. His studies led him to advocate emigration and, in particular, emigration to New Zealand, as one means of relieving distress. Following his marriage to Jane Robieson in 1850, he left for New Zealand with his wife. In Wellington he quickly made a position for himself as a resourceful and enterprising contractor, among the works which he completed being harbour reclamation, seawalls, and the Wellington Provincial Buildings (1857).
In 1853 he was elected to the committee of the Wairarapa Small Farms Association, an organisation responsible for the settlement of Greytown and Masterton. In 1867 his suggestion that the unsold lands should be used for educational purposes within the district led directly to the establishment of the Greytown and Masterton land trusts. Carter represented the Wairarapa in the Wellington Provincial Council from 1857 to 1864, and in the General Assembly (for Wairarapa) from 1859 to 1865. The settlement was named in his honour 'Carterville', these days called Carterton.
Carter's business success permitted his early return to England in 1863 for a four-year interval and again for most of the latter part of his life. Between 1857 and 1863, by a series of purchases of small holdings, he had formed the East Taratahi or Parkvale estates. While overseas he kept in touch with Carterton, and his direct assistance to the borough library made it, by the mid-1880s, probably the best in the country outside the main centres.
Carter died at Wellington on 22 July 1896, and was buried at Clareville Cemetery in Carterton. He bequeathed a significant book and pamphlet collection to The New Zealand Institute, and the residue of his estate went towards the erection of an astronomical observatory for Wellington – the Carter Observatory.[


What would he do now?
He would get out his horsewhip and scourge the self serving weasel bureaucrats that have taken his legacy and converted it to their own  use and personal benefit.
I went over to Carter Court this morning and asked for information  and the locum manager said only if I was civil.
I asked her if I had ever been uncivil to her and she said no.
There ya go.
Last week she said the lawnmower guy had gardening qualifications.
Show me.
He himself told me that the spraying on my little allotment was done by the CDC but when I asked the overseer he said that was not true.
So He is a proven liar.
Has he lied about his qualifications?

any way back to the main point.

when I asked the person for information to which anyone is entitled to she said that it was
confide
Elaine Brazendale
ntial and she would have to ask elaine.
I presume she meant Ealine Brazendal who has presided over the selling of Cartertons Heritage Assets viz. the old maternity hospital and successfully gutting the local St Johns and transferring the local Red Cross to masterton.


when I pressed her on that point she looked it up on the net and told me I would have to walk down town in the pouring rain and access it myself at the public library.

These people are horrible.

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