The battery company, formed to operate the Firth and Clark Battery at Waiorongomai

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The battery company, formed to operate the Firth and Clark Battery at Waiorongomai

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The Battery Company was a private one, and although there were hints that other shareholders existed, only Josiah Clifton Firth and James McCosh Clark were known to be its owners. Firth was the more prominent of the two, willingly so, as he was never short of opinions and used his links with local and central government to assist his own interests in general and this company in particular. When constructing the battery at Waiorongomai, Firth posed as a philanthropist aiming to benefit the mi...

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2016

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Hart, Philip

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/10397

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