New Zealand – It was a very fine day.

The Auckland Years

In 1881 CS Clarke bought Section 28, Lot 60 at 83 Grey Street in Auckland City and he and his wife Mary Ann and his

In 1866 Clarke purchased an 80 acre farm on the south side of the harbour with a small house and cow shed. In 1868 he

“The early settlers had a very hard time as there was no regular trader, here no store, no school and no Post Office. Our first

In the words of Charles Septimus Clarke in his notes about the history of Leigh: “On reading a letter from an Albertland settler to a