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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]
Mr. Henry Edgar Nicholls
Mr. Henry Edgar Nicholls,
Accountant and Cashier to the Wellington Harbour Board, has been employed on the wharf for over twenty years. Mr. Nicholls was born in Wiltshire, England, in 1857, and educated partly in his native land and partly in Adelaide, where he arrived with his parents on Christmas Day, 1868. He came to Wellington in 1873, and became junior clerk on the wharf in February of the following year. At that time Messrs. Jackson and Graham were the lessees of the Queen's Wharf from the Council. When the Corpnration took over the management of the wharf from Mr. Jackson in February, 1876, Mr. Nicholls was appointed assistant accountant, Mr. G. P. Campion being the accountant. Five years later he became wharf accountant, which office he held till February, 1885. During this period the Harbour Board had been called into existence to take over the control from the City Council. At the above date Mr. H. M. Lyon retired from the secretariat, and Mr. Nioholls was then promoted to the position he now holds as accountant and cashier. In amateur theatricals and operatic performanaes the subject of this notice has been
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prominent. He was one of the founders of the old Wellington Amateur Dramatic Club (which has been incorporated with the Operatic Society), and is now stage manager for the Dramatic Students. Mr. Nicholls was married in 1884 to the eldest daughter of the late Mr. Gerard de Thierry Sampson, who was an officer of the Legislative Council, and he has three children—one son and two daughters.