Arthur Carman

Arthur had worked in the Audit Department but, hankering for a bureaucracy-free life, decided to become a Lambton Quay bookseller.

The couple liked the countryside, although Ranui had barely-formed metal roads and it was quicker for Edith to push the pram along the rail tracks to Tawa, picking up lumps of coal en route.

[7] He was a bookseller and publisher (as Wright and Carman, founded by his father); his Lambton Quay bookshop served as a landmark and meeting place for thirty years.

His viewpoint had changed from traditional Methodism toward Quakerism following a 1925 visit to the World War I battlefields (he had been touring the United Kingdom as the sole press-correspondent travelling with the "Invincibles" All Black rugby team), although he remained a Methodist local preacher for the whole of his life.

[10][11] A selection of the Papers of Arthur Carman are held at the New Zealand Cricket Museum in four boxes of his notes, scrapbooks and correspondence.