Mr. Charles Green , sometime of Motueka, settled in the province of Nelson in 1848. He was twenty years old when he shipped as a seaman on board the “Bednister,” for New Zealand. The vessel first touched at Taranaki, where she landed some passengers, and then passed on to Nelson, where Mr. Green remained, and engaged in pit-sawing and farming. In 1852 he took up land, which he farmed with much success. His property consisted of 100 acres of fertile farm land at Motueka, and 1000 acres of sheep grazing country at Moutere. Mr. Green was for more than forty years a member of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity. He was married in 1852, and had a family of eight sons and three daughters. Mr. Green died on the 27th of September, 1902.