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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Wake, Charles Augustus

Wake, Charles Augustus, Gum Buyer and General Storekeeper, Mongonui. Branch at Terairi. Mr. Wake purchased this business in 1897 from Mr. A. S. Holmes, by whom it was first established in 1886. There are several buildings occupying many
Mongonui Wharf, Post Office, Etc.

Mongonui Wharf, Post Office, Etc.

page 593 hundreds of square feet of floor space with a street frontage of thirty feet. Mr. Wake has by hard work and perseverance succeeded in greatly extending his business, especially the kauri gum trade, of which he has had considerable experience. Several pack-horses are kept continually on the road delivering goods on the gumfields and returning laden with gum. Mr. Wake is a son of Mr. W. H. Wake, formerly schoolmaster at Timaru. He finished his studies at the Normal School, Christchurch, then went to sea for eight years, trading between Australia and New Zealand, and for a like term to foreign ports. In 1894 he went to Rorua and assisted his brother in his store there till 1896, when he moved northwards and established himself at Whangaroa as a gum-buyer and afterwards bought his present business. Mr. Wake is married to a daughter of the late Mr. Henry Rosleur, a well-known old identity of Mongonul.