Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Mr. Henry Oliphant Harte , County Clerk, Returning Officer, and Treasurer for the Lake County Council, and treasurer for the Wakatipu Licensing district, was born in 1861, at High Wycombe, England, and came to Lyttelton, with his parents, by the ship “Dagmar,” in 1870. He was educated at Christ's College Grammar School, Christchurch, and entered the Government service in 1876. He was in the Land and Survey Department in Christchurch for about thirteen years, and was for three years in the same department at Invercargill, having qualified as assistant surveyor. Mr Harte left the Government service to take up a position as clerk in the Borough Council office at Invercargill, and in April, 1903, he was appointed to his present position at Queenstown. Mr Harte was married, in October, 1903, to a daughter of Mr J. Barnett, sheepfarmer, “Deep Spring,” Leeston, Canterbury.