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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. Charles Spooner

Mr. Charles Spooner was born at Lawford, Essex, England, in 1843, and educated at Manningtree. He served an apprenticeship to the sea, in vessels trading on the English coast and to the various continental ports, and afterwards made voyages to Africa, East and West Indies, China, etc. In 1867 he arrived in Auckland in the barque “Merrington, and was master of several vessels trading on the New Zealand coast and to New Caledonia, until the year 1879, when he retired from the sea in order to accept an appointment with the firm of Hancock and Co., of Auckland. In 1899, after being for twenty years with that firm, he took a few months' holiday, and, accompanied by Mrs Spooner, paid a visit to England; after which he returned to Auckland in 1900, and resumed his former position with Messrs Hancock and Co. Mr. Spooner was first elected a member of the Newmarket Borough Council in 1890, and resigned in 1900. As a Freemason he belongs to Lodge Eden, 1530, E.C., of which he has been a member since 1879. He also joined the Oddfellows, M.U., in 1870. Mr. Spooner has a family of six daughters and three sons.

Mr. C. Spooner.

Mr. C. Spooner.