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Christchurch and arranged privately to purchase land from Captain William Charlesworth. Finding that he lacked the money, Moorhouse obtained permission from his executive to take funds from the provincial account. Harman, acting treasurer and outside the executive, resigned rather
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Harman was one of the original land purchasers in
Christchurch. In February 1851, he took up rural section (RS) 58, which had an area of 50 acres (20 ha); rural sections were numbered in the order in which they were assigned to land holders. Harman and the surveyor Cyrus Davie took up land
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February 1862, an attempt was made to form a company and formalise the ownership of the paper. A deed of association for "The Proprietors of The Press" was drafted, and it lists the five members of the previous committee
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in 1881. Harman attended service every Sunday, was a churchwarden and a vestryman. When a new vestry was built in 1901, he had a bad fall on the construction site and broke his thigh bone, which made him bed bound for three months.
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November 1857 in the election for the second council. He resigned in January 1858 and was re-elected in the following month, and served until January 1860. From February 1860 to January 1861, he represented the
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in its founding years." The writers of the history acknowledge Harman and
Stevens as "among the shrewdest financial brains in Christchurch in their day". FitzGerald once called Stevens a "thorough Jew".
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except for one period. Between 1854 and 1856, he was emigration agent in London for the
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Society of Land Purchasers, the organisation that looked after the interests of the settlers and dealt with the representative of the
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