DeRenzy, the co-owner and manager of the New Zealand Typewriter Company, who at the end of the year offered Reed a job as a shorthand writer and message boy. Īt the typewriting school, he made the acquaintance of T. Known to Reed as Belle, she was nine years older and a devout Wesleyan Methodist. Like Reed, she and her parents were English immigrants who had settled in Auckland in 1885. For accommodation, he boarded with a couple who lived on Karangahape Road and made the acquaintance of their daughter, Harriet Isabel Fisher. ![]() ![]() Approaches made to the New Zealand Herald and the Auckland Star were turned down so he took the opportunity to take typewriter lessons. Working in Auckland īy late 1895 Reed had become so proficient in shorthand he was sufficiently confident to go to Auckland to look for reporting work. Realising he needed a skill to further himself, he decided to learn Pitman's shorthand he hoped that this would lead to a career as a reporter. He also worked on the family's farmlet and would take occasional jobs cutting scrub or working on road construction. The work was hard, involving the extraction of gum from the ground and packing it. Returning to live with his parents, Reed was conscious of the burden that the expense of his medical care had caused his parents and in light of this, he decided to start working on the kauri gum fields alongside his father rather than finish his schooling. He was eventually discharged in July 1890. He stayed in hospital for a year, away from his parents who were unable to afford to visit him, and underwent three operations. He was later sent to hospital in Auckland where infection of the femur bone was diagnosed. Later in the year, he severely injured his leg to the point of being bedridden, with local doctors unable to diagnose the problem for 12 months. Alfred Reed attended Whangarei Primary School from early 1888 but was soon withdrawn from it in favour of another school, operated on a part-time basis. They rejected an Anglican church that was closer to their home on the grounds that it was too conformist. Unable to find a Baptist church to attend, the family went to a Wesleyan Methodist church. Living conditions were crude and the family lived simply, the parents instilling a strong work ethic in their children. After several months, there was enough money to buy a block of land at Parahaki, to the east of Whangārei and the family moved there in late December 1887. Elizabeth Reed supplemented the family's income through needlework. He eventually found work as a kauri gum digger in Northland while his family remained in Auckland. They promptly travelled north to settle in Auckland but James Reed struggled to find employment. After a six-week voyage aboard the Arawa, the family arrived in Wellington in April 1887. His maternal uncle lived there, in Motueka, and reported favourably on New Zealand in his letters to his sister, Alfred's mother. This prompted him to migrate with his family to New Zealand. īy 1886, James Reed's brick business was failing and had to close. The family were all avid readers, and for Reed, books would prove to be a lifelong passion. ![]() Alfred Reed was educated at a small private school and then, from 1883, Maynard Road School. His father James managed a brick field but in 1882 purchased his own brick business in Walthamstow and moved his family to the area. ![]() He was the second oldest of four children to parents who were devout Baptists and raised their children accordingly. Reed, was a New Zealand publisher, author and entrepreneur.Īlfred Hamish Reed was born at Hayes, Middlesex, in England on 30 December 1875, the son of James William Reed and Elizabeth Reed. Sir Alfred Hamish Reed CBE (30 December 1875 – 15 January 1975), generally known as A.H. For the American neoclassical composer, see Alfred Reed.
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