Well-Known Wellington Bookshop Shuts

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28794, 15 January 1959, Page 5

Well-Known Wellington Bookshop Shuts

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WELLINGTON, January 14. Mr Carm an • .. After 30 years in business as a ness becjwstT buS j’ bookseller and news-agent on which owns th** if Government,, iSnbton quay, Mr A. H. Carman Jffinatedthe L b ±" T g ' has ter 7 tte S last th tTml° Or °* ShOp d “voure to Mr Carman’s varied interests win^conUnu^^he^whol^" H< f made his premises much more of the businessfrom kLj par than a shop. It was an exchange Linden. rOm 1118 home at for news and opinions on Rugby, (Ticket, local body affairs. Church affairs, politics and anything else that stirred men and women deeply. The proximity of the little shop to Parliament Buildings, the law courts and Government offices made it and its proprietor particularly well known to workers in those places. Mr Carman left the public service to take over the business, already established, in 1928. "If I had stayed in the Audit Department I would have been retiring this year, but I would have been a very different person,” he said. He was referring to the freedom a man in private business had to develop his interests.

Mr Carman is a co-editor of the Rugby Almanac and the Cricket Almanac. A few years Tawa Flat district, of which he has an unrivalled knowledge. For many years he had been a member of the Wellington Hospital Board, and he is a member of the Tawa Flat Borough Council.