Charleston: Its Rise and Decline/Appendix/Personal
FAIR, ARTHUR; The Honourable Mr. Justice, M.C. Born Charleston, 1885; son of James William Fair, one of the settlement’s pioneers and prominent business men, and Teresa Fair. LL.B., 1907. Served throughout Great War, 1914–1918; Captain (Tempy.), Suffolk Regiment (T.F.). Crown Solicitor, 1921. Principal Law Officer of the Crown, 1923. K.C. and Solicitor-General of the Dominion, 1925. Judge of Supreme Court, 1934. Resident Judge at Auckland.
O’REGAN, PATRICK JOSEPH; The Honourable Mr. Justice. Born at Charleston, 6th February, 1869; son of Patrick O’Regan, a pioneer miner who removed to Inangahua Valley in 1872, Elected M.H.R. for Inangahua Electorate, 28th November, 1893; and for Buller Electorate, 1896. Commenced study of law, 1900. Admitted Solicitor, 1905, and Barrister, 1908. Appointed President of Court of Arbitration, 1937; and Judge of Court of Compensation, 1940.
RILEY, SAMUEL JOHN; Captain. Arrived on West Coast, 1866, and traded there in schooner Three Friends of 14 tons. Later formed firm of Riley & Seaton which built at Auckland the P.S. Result, coastal trader and first vessel to enter Nile River. Later the firm ordered from Leith the P.S. Nile, which was shipped to Westport in parts, assembled there, and took over the Nile River trade. He was Mayor of Westport in 1903.
DOLLMAN, THOMAS; a pioneer of Charleston. Born at Chichester, England, 1838. Went to sea before the outbreak of war with Russia, entering the Navy in the Paymaster’s Department. Saw active service in H.M.S. Tribune. Arrived New Zealand in H.M.S. Harrier. Left the service, 1865, 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. 
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