Wallingford/Jarlov Family Trees

Printer and publisher at Levin, then Ohakune. - from "The Prouse Connection"

Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]
Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited
Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1897, Wellington
Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand
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The Manawatu Farmer (proprietors, William Charles Nation and Charles Cecil Nation, trading as Nation and Son), Ballance Street, Shannon. This journal was established by the present proprietors in 1893, shortly before the general election took place. The parer—a two page “news” of twenty-eight columns, issued tri-weekly—has a wide circulation from Paraparaumu to Palmerston North. A branch office has been established at Levin, the headquarters of the travelling reporter. Politically the paper supports the Seddon Government. As a journal, it is devoted to the interests of commerce, industry, and agriculture, and contains a variety of interesting matter. The leaders are neat and smartly written, chiefly from the pen of Mr. W. C. Nation, the paper being also recognised as a first-class advertising medium throughout the district, in which it is well patronised. Messrs. Nation and Son also print the Foxton Telegraph for the proprietors of that journal, which is run much on the same line as the Manawatu Farmer.

From Islands of the Dawn, by Robert S. Ellwood, page 51:

Sad news came on June 1, 1929 with the death on November 28, 1928 of Charles Cecil Nation, son of the editor. Charles had been active in Spirtualism as a printer and had a weekly circle in his home where his wife served as medium.

In the 1908 Otaki electoral roll, Charles C. and Grace Nation were living in Levin.

Page 2 Advertisements Column 8
Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 1378, 7 March 1902, Page 2

The following appointments appear in this week's Gazette:- Charles Cecil Nation to be Deputy-Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages at Shannon.

He is shown as attending the Greytown School from February 1883, and also in 1885 and 1886.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 283, 29 November 1928, Page 11

MR. C. C. NATION.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) RAETIHI, this day. The death occurred in a private hospital in Raetihi of Mr. Charles Cecil Nation, proprietor of the "Waimarino County Call" and "Ohakune Times." He had been ill for thirteen weeks, but his death was not expected. Mr. Nation was born in Christchurch 55 years ago, and as a lad worked in Greytown, Levin, and Shannon with his father, William Charles Nation, of Levin, who is well known in the newspaper world. After leaving Levin and Shannon Mr. Nation went to Ohakune in 1911, and he purchased the "Ohakune Times" in 1914, and the '"Waimarino County Call" in 1918. He was a member of the Raetihi Bowling Club, Druids Lodge, and the Masonic Lodge. He leaves a widow, one son and one daughter.

Born in Christchurch.
To Graytown, Levin, Shannon as a boy
Ohakune in about 1911.
1907 photo of house on Weraera Rd has them in Levin then, as does the 1908 voter listing.

Evening Post 23 Apr 1902
Along the Manawatu Line
Levin, 22 April - From our own correspondent

A wedding of more than ordinary interest took place to-day, when Mr Charles Cecil Nation, eldest son of Mr W. C. Nation, journalist, was married to Miss Grace Prouse, eldest daughter of Mr Richard Prouse, of the firm of Prouse Brothers, sawmillers. The ceremony took place at the residence of the bride's father, and the Rev. S. Peryman officiated. The bridesmaids were Miss Jessie Nation and Miss Jessie Prouse, and the bride and her maids were prettily attired. Mr F. J. Jones was best man. The congregation and choir of the Methodist Church presented a handsome clock as a token of appreciation for the bride's services as organist in the Levin church for eight years past, and she was entertained at a "social" on Monday night. The hands employed at the mill with which Mr Prouse is connected made another valuable present. The young couple left by train for the North.

Charles Cecil and Isabella Grace Nation appear on the 1903 Otaki electoral roll living in Levin, with him as a journalist. The same details appear for 1905/06 and 1908.

TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 128, 30 May 1912, Page 3

DECREES NISI

PALMERSTON N, 29th May

At the Supreme Court to-day Mr. Justice Chapman granted decrees nisi in the following undefended divorce cases:

...

Isabella Grace Nation v. Charles Cecil Nation, adultry.

Letter from Phyllis Prouse Taylor to Christobel Nation Tunnington, 17 December 1981:

Phyllis says she was there (she would have been 3 years old?) and believes it to have been a fine day.