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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Freeman, Henry James

Freeman, Henry James, Watchmaker and Jeweller, under the square clock, Manners Street. Bankers, Bank of Australasia. Mr. Freeman is a native of Cambridge, and was brought up in London. In 1852 he caught the gold fever and emigrated to Australia. After ten years he came over to Otago at the time of the Molyneaux rush, subsequently returning to Melbourne. He came to Wellington in 1866, and found employment with Mr. Campbell, who had established the present business in 1865. On January 1st, 1879, Mr. Freeman took over the lease from his employer, and has conducted the business ever since. He has secured a new lease for twenty-one years of the premises, which are of wood and iron, two stories in height, with a floorage space of 2500 square feet. Mr. Freeman is the repairing agent for Wellington provincial district for the Waterbury Watch Company. His specialties are the manufacture of masonic jewels and working tools, besides the general business of a watchmaker and jeweller. Mr. Freeman is a direct importer of all classes of goods, but specially Masonic and optical goods in all varieties. He has a telescope with astronomical eye-piece, which he will deliver to any part of New Zealand for 25s., also a students' pocket microscope of enormous magnifying power, at the low price of 6s. Mr. Freeman has declined public life, preferring to give his energies to the prosecution of his own concerns.