Mr. Charles Robinson . Postmaster and Storekeeper at Kapuka, was born, in 1849, at Saxby, Lincolnshire, England, where he was educated and brought up to farming and flourmilling. Mr Robinson came to Port Chalmers by the ship “Wanganui,” in 1879, and in the following year took up land at Kapuka, where he started his store about the year 1892, when the Seaward Bush line was being put through. He has also been postmaster for the district for eight or nine years. Mr Robinson is a member of the Kapuka school committee. He married a daughter of Mr W. Thompson, of Brigg, Lincoln, and has a family of seven sons and five daughters.