178:. In 1854 he was described as a Collins Street, Hobart merchant and in 1855 a resident of Melbourne. By 1857 he was a merchant in Nelson. He traded under the name J. Levien & Co. Levien was also a shareholder in the Dun Mountain Copper Mining Company. He was involved with the organising of a Gas Company to provide street lighting for Nelson, a Director of the Nelson Gold Mining Company, and a member of the Nelson Chamber of Commerce.
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He was actively interested in politics and public affairs, but only became prominent in 1875 when the municipalities affairs were in crises. Levien became Mayor of Nelson on 26 February 1875 after the Mayor and several
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council's accounts were in a muddle according to its auditors and it had a large overdraft at the bank, and it went bankrupt in early 1875. As a result of Levien's hard work he set the accounts in order, urged economy from the newly elected
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Robert Levien (1834 in London – 1893) decided in 1864 to settle in Nelson where his uncle Joseph Levien had already been for some time. Robert Levien was also a merchant and was first elected a Nelson City
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linking New
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