Marks/Inscriptions: A. 143 Alport. Herbert E. (1820 -86) arrived with his wife and lis a, x girls by the New era in Wellington in '55 and camo on immediately to Ly lt. in the Mountain Maid, arriving there 8.7.55. He Joined his brother C.J. Alport in business as merchants and auctioneers on Norwich Lylt. (nar. After two years he mov ed to ChCh and opened an es tables ment 1h' sale of boots , shoes and saddler y Ete in Colombo St. He built a hew store on the conner h and Colombo Stre , in whe er of Ann ag a ch contained Auction rooms and there were as well Yards at the back for the sale of Stock, poultry . et. Bishop Bess. followed him in this store and after then Mrs Sharland. She Canty Farmers Club lied a diner in Alport new store to celebrate their first anniversary This was in Ap. 60. sayi He started auction sales of front and poultry in his Yards in Mar.61. He was oe of the Comm. formed to organise, the first. Vo4 Canty. . irs.) Volunteer Rifle Corps. He was successful in the election for the newly formed ChCh Mince pal Council in Feb. 6 . Liven ty of the most promontory men f the city contested s 0 seats. It aroused enthusiasm. they hoped to sece the and of Stumbling into bogs or setting clouds of Ando sen. O.O; LT. clit riot. 9.8.86 : 21.4.60 : 27.3.61 : 19.6.61 : 1.3.62 : 6.5.63 :; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: A. 143 H E. Alport sand being blown through the cracks be tween the floor boards. It was sod also attract ive because they had not to bear the odin of imposing rater on the citi ans . Thos council had no rating powers: they were to live on grants from the Prov. Coun. In '63 he was gazetted a trustee for the Coge branch of the Lylt. Savings Bank; and he became a director of the new ChCh Gas Coyne and e he was elected a vestryman of St. Michae in May. In 66, by which time the Council had become the Cit Counci with rating powers , a seat on it was no longer an object of desire and of Keen competition. here were only five candidate 2 four seats and few Yale payers reeve ded their voles. The reasons were - rates were furiously resented. the Connerly had not managed particularly well and at least one meeting out of thre lapsed f r want of a guri m. Wynne. Willamd's Ralepay ers Protection Soc. made things pretty hot for the Council ors and a seat on it was no longer an object of desire. bit had become a highly in confor table posit ion attracting all the pucks and no ha" pence. The day that William LT. 23.4.66 : 27.4.66 :; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: A. 143 H.E. Alport Thom son 's death o ( in the paper (he was P o.v. Auditor) there h Appeared in also appeared an aroun cement that H .E. Alport intended to Solit the Super men dents concurrence in his nomination to that office. Alport hadit Wasted onyx time; but he condit efford to. There were probe y other and more important people after the position. John Ollivier was known to be one of theme, although he had already announced his desira of being Speaker of the new Council. However Ollery decided that the Speakers up was out of hir real and theat he had better Con cent rate on getting appointed Auditor . Alport deeded that the opposition was too strong and gracefully retired from the contest. He was appointed Sec. of th o arty Rifle Assoc. in Ap. 6. Luck, the Architect was the chiffon advocate of an underground of os drainage system in Ch Cu and the pipes had been ordered and brad arrived. the death notices in the news papers underlined the urgency of this improvement. Alport was the chief opponent of the scheme and carried a motion thon gh the Corner that the pipes be disposed of. Actually the Council had not fished p f for them and had no d paying f; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: A. 143 4. immediate prospect of finding the money to lay them. In Dec. 65 Alport presided over a meeting interested in the project of " a new road to Riccarton " This was the fus t attack on the moreau letdown of Hagley Park: t wars proposed to built two bid gas over the Avon where the s d at the Entrance to the Park. Aung £ Street crossed it e second ( camel proposed road across the Park was to be formed and fenced. The Bo Got. sand they had no money. It was aged that Arnagh St. was Still largely unoccupied and a large expense w could fall up on a few. (Those who lived in a street normally pard half the cost of in proements to it) The project was dropped. Alport at this time was the most prom ment ard active of the Council ors , though this is not to say that he was the most able. At the end of '66 Wm Wilson , who had been in partnership with the Aikman Brothers as auctioneers and land agents, took Alport into partners up and the furman became Wilson and Alport. He was elected to the Comm . of the Canty. A.P. Assoc in Jan 67. and in the same year became a Church Property Trs lee representing St. Johns, Latina Square. He became a member of the ChCh Fire Police. He took part in what LT. 14 2865; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: A. 143 . AS Alport. 8in what were known as "Penny Readings which were begun in '68. The idea was to give working men Smelling to doin the evenings and freep them out of the hotels. seven hundred people used to assemble in the Town Hall. He was a member of the Ch Ch Poultry Assoc, June 69. Wilson and Alport dissolved partnership in Aug. 69 and alport bankrupt2y was announced immediately after . The Cate 60's were very bad times in N.Z. He attributed it to a fall decline in values and a fall in profits. He had five ques to bing s and educate. Judge G reson remarked that his household expenditure was not unreasonable considering the sis of his family and granted his discharge. He had gone to try his luck at the Auckland gold fields but had nog stayed long. He moved into a new office and auction r coms het to the Bank of N.S.W. he Hereford St. Wm Mitchell the Fue Inspector and chief of the Fire Police head left on a trip to England and Alport took his place. Mitchell, Alport and F. C A. Bishop were the thrse leading men in the Fire Police. first edel He had been, an auditor to th Ch. Ch.C.C. Se Mar. 71 (there was an annual election to the post) bit in June 81 he failed to be re-elected. LT. 11.1.67 : 24.1.67 : 2.5.67 : 8.9.67 : 30.7.68 : 7.8.69 :; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: A. 143 pel M.E.Alport. 6. He put down his failure to an accident which had forea him to go about on crutches and prevented him Canvassing asus ual He said the salary - 25 9uneas - was too low. It had cost him nearly ter at to set himself elected last time . After A rn of failures he succeeded in the election for Aty Auditor in '82, 3 and 84. This position was now important to him. Matson + Co had now absorbed a great deal of the unscelancous anetuoneening business of ChCh and times were bad and setting worse and the Ealam woes very welcome . J.G. Hawkes, another veteran , got in for the other seat. Alport always worked hard owe the Comm. of the Annual Sported meeting at La tuner Square in Anniversary Day. For years he was a marshall of the dary and produce exhibits at the ChCh Show. His fist wife died 15.6.61 and was buried 4.9.'62 al Barbadoes St. Cem. he marr2, Amelia Elizabeth widow of Chas Howard the builder. She died. 29.1.67. He d. Colem 's Hotel 5.8.56 aged 66. LT. 28.8.69 : 23.11.69 . 15.10.70 : 2.3.71 : 5.2.73 : 26.5.738 : 2.6.82 : 4.6.84 :; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: A. 143 Has. Alport family. 5 daus. Ellen Elizabeth marr. 6.11.84 Chas. Dickenson Moris (the Mores of Quill. Moris Henrietta marr. at St. August in 's , Honor Dak Park, London 4.10.92 Robert Hay Robertson. Caroline marr. 11.0.75 ot Samuel Sinclair manager of P. she d. 3.7.01 Cunningham + Co. Arna Maria marr. 19.3.75 Frank Houghton of Pigeon Bay. she d. 14. 5.74 aged Charlotte Marian marr. 10.10.78 James Knore of the Bank N.Z. LT. 6.12.92; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer