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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Nelson, Marlborough & Westland Provincial Districts]

Nobles

Nobles.

Nobles is the name given to a small mining township, five miles from Little Grey Junction, in Antonio's riding of the county of Inangahua. There are two dredges at work, and a small amount of individual mining is still carried on. The business of the postal department is conducted at the store of Mr. Perrett. About the year 1865, there was a large population at Nobles, but the place is now (1905) in such a state of decay that the local public school has only four pupils. The station of Mr. S. M. Mackley is near the settlement. Nobles is in the electorate of Grey, and in the provincial district of Nelson. Its population, at the census of 1901 was not separately enumerated.

The Post Office at Nobles is conducted in the general store of Mr. Perrett. The postal business is confined to the despatch and delivery of mails, and the sale of stamps.

Mr. Robert Sparke Perrett , J.P., Postmaster and Storekeeper at Nobles, has a store which contains a full stock of general merchandise. He was born at Paiginton, Devonshire, England, in the year 1837, was educated in Guernsey, and brought up to a mercantile life. Mr. Perrett came to New Zealand, in 1856, landed in Nelson, and went to the goldfields at Collingwood, where he remained for seven years. In 1864, he joined in the “rush” to Wakamarina, and went, successively, to Hokitika and Ross, and, later, to Nobles where, for some time, he managed a store for Mr. S. M. Mackley. In 1878, he started in business on his own account as a storekeeper and butcher. Mr. Perrett has been a member of the Nobles school committee, and of the Ahaura licensing committee, and has been Deputy Returning Officer for Nobles for a number of years. In 1894, he was appointed to the Commission of the Peace.