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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Ind-Carver, Robert William

Ind-Carver, Robert William, J.P., Chemist and Druggist, Ohingaiti. This business was established in 1893 by the present proprietor, who in 1856 began to learn his business with Messrs. C. and F. Barraud, the first chemists of Welfington. Subsequently he was in business in Napier on his own account, and dispensing for Dr. Grace, and afterwards he acted as assistant to Mr. John Allen, in Wellington. A son of the Rev. R. Robert William Ind-Carver Carver, who for thirty years laboured first in the Wesleyan, and afterwards in the Church of England mission under Bishop Spencer, the subject of this sketch was born at Malnattam, near Madras, India, in 1838. After his father's deeply-lamented death, he went to England with his widowed mother, and was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and “All Saints,” Margaret Street, London. He came to New Zealand in 1853 as a cadet, and has had considerable experience of country life, having at one time managed the Tuki Tuki Sheep-station, Hawkes Bay, for Mr. Henry St. Hill, then Resident Magistrate of Wellington. In musical matters Mr. Ind-Carver has been prominent as organist of St. John's, Wellington, for three years, and as a music-teacher there and in the Wairarapa. While living in Napier as chemist, in 1866 he took part as a militiaman in the Omarumn engagement against the Hau Haus, for which service he holds a war medal, and after, in 1868–69 as a volunteer, was in active service at Poverty Bay and Mohaka massacres. Mrs. Carver is a daughter of Mr. Thomas Nicholas, builder, of Wellington.