Arthur carman park (Wellington) Traditional Cache
redants: I can't do anything with this spot anymore, so it's going to have to go.
Arthur carman park (Wellington)
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This is a cache in Arthur Carman park. This is an official dog exercise area but dogs are only allowed there from 1st November to 31st January Please rehide securely as I really don't want it to muggled. Cache is NOT accessible from motorway, as stopping on the motorway is illegal
Arthur Herbert Carman was born in Paparangi, Johnsonville,Wellington, on 2 August 1902, the eldest of five sons. He joined the boy scouts, attended the Methodist Sunday school and was kept busy at home assisting with a big garden and 50 fowls.
Carman played cricket for the Wesley club and rugby for Johnsonville,before failing eyesight forced him to give up the latter in favour of harriers. In September 1927 Carman bought a bookselling business in Molesworth Street, Wellington.
In 1930 Carman began his long career in local-body politics, gaining election to the Johnsonville Town Board. He was elected to the Wellington Hospital Board as a Labour candidate in May 1935 and was returned three years later. In 1938 he also stood, unsuccessfully, for the Makara County Council.In March 1936 Carman was a founding member of the Christian Pacifist Society of New Zealand. He was then chairman of the Tawa Flat branch of the Labour Party, but in the late 1930s became increasingly critical of what he saw as the dictatorial attitude of its leaders.
His fundamental pacifist beliefs having firmed, Carman was now actively campaigning against the Second World War and New Zealand’s participation in it. When he was called up for military service in November 1942 Carman appealed to the Wellington Armed Forces’ Appeal Board on conscience grounds. Despite evidence of his his prominent membership of the Christian Pacifist Society and No More War Movement, his appeal was rejected in March 1943.
In 1944 Carman was re-elected to the Wellington Hospital Board. He was to hold this position until his death in 1982,becoming its longest-serving member. After the war he expanded his local-body activities: he was a member of the Wellington Free Ambulance Service board, the Tawa Flat Town Board and later the Hutt Valley Electric Power and Gas Board (1959–82).
In 1955–56 he wrote a fine local history, Tawa Flat and the old Porirua road. Carman sold his bookshop at the end of 1959. Arthur Carman died in Wellington on 28 November 1982. His full and busy life was notable for prominent involvement in many seemingly disparate areas. A prolific writer, his rugby and cricket almanacs in particular won him a wide and respected readership and he was an effective advocate in numerous local issues in Wellington.
(This is from the encyclopedia of New Zealand/ Te Ara. By David Grant)
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