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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. Curtis Moore

Mr. Curtis Moore, formerly manager of the Kauri Timber Company's saw mills at Whangaroa, was born in New Hampshire in 1839, and throughout his life has been associated with the timber industry. At an early age he was in charge of a mill in the United States turning out 40,000 feet of sawn timber per day. Leaving America in 1862, Mr. Moore was wrecked on Baker's Island and was brought on to New Zealand in an American whaler, and since that time he has spent forty years in connection with kauri timber. After being a while in Auckland he started a mill in the Kaipara district and in 1864 took charge of Mr. McLeod's mill at Helensville for three years. Mr. Moore was engaged in mill work on the Thames goldfields for nearly four years, and after being at the Shortland Sawmills for eleven years, he returned to Helensville and again took charge of what are now the Helensville Timber Company's Mills. Five years later he returned to the Shortland Sawmills, remained in charge of them after the Kauri Timber Company took them over, and was some time after removed to Whangaroa. Mr. Moore had the misfortune to lose three of his fingers by an accident at the Manukau in 1863, and has met with other painful accidents. Public affairs have always found in him a sincere worker. He has been associated with road boards and school committees, was instrumental in establishing a lodge of the I.O.O.F. at Helensville and has been a Mason for fifteen years. Mr. Moore was for a time chairman of the Whangaroa School Commissioners, and whilst at the Thames he was superintendent of the local fire brigade for several years. Some time ago he was transferred from the management of the Kauri Timber Company's Whangaroa mills to that of their mills at Aratapu.

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