Mr C. W. Turner’s Warehouse and Bond, 234 Cashel Street, Christchurch
Mr C. W. Turner’s Warehouse and Bond, 234 Cashel Street, Christchurch
[ca. 1885]
Charles Wesley Turner was born in Hobart in 1834 and came to Lyttelton in 1857. A strong Wesleyan, he 'preached on Sundays as vigorously as he dealt in the markets on weekdays'. He co-owned Peacock's Wharf at Lyttelton, helped establish the New Zealand Shipping Company, and made a bid to take over all the flour mills in Canterbury. He built a bonded store, warehouse and office on the corner of Cashel and Oxford streets in October 1875. In 1882 he advised farmers that he 'wanted for the City Mill 100,000 bushels of the primest milling wheat'. His highs were punctuated by lows during which he was bankrupt. He owned land on Papanui Road where he built a house, Fassifern. He and his wife, Emily, had 13 children. Emily Turner, 44, died on 13 Oct. 1881, and C.W. Turner, 72, died on 25 Oct. 1906. They are buried at St. Paul's churchyard, Papanui.
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