Sali Mahomet
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Sali Mahomet is…
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https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/heritage/publications/richmanpoorman/salimahomet/
http://www.nzicecream.org.nz/history-nz.htm
https://lostchristchurch.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/icecream-charlie-cathedral-square/
SALI AND SULTAN (his father) GRAVE https://discoverywall.nz/media/126531
SALI DEATH: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19431008.2.6
- “The Troubles of Solomon Shah” Star , Issue 7373, 10 April 1902, Page 2]
- Star, Issue 6895, 8 September 1900, Page 5.
- Abdul Boreham was operating his ice cream stand near the BNZ in Hereford Street in 1904, and had assigned it to one of his fellow vendors and countrymen, to return to Calcutta to visit his ailing father. Like Sali, Boreham had also married a European wife, and had children, who remained in Christchurch during his pilgrimage home. However when he wished to return, he found he could only go via Sydney, but Commonwealth laws prevented him landing there, even though he was a British Subject. The Commissioner of Customs had to be approached by city officials to obtain his return. Source: Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7995, 23 May 1904, Page 3.
- ‘City Council’. Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10923, 26 March 1901, Page 6.
- Star , Issue 7068, 9 April 1901, Page 2
- ‘City Council’ Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10952, 30 April 1901, Page 6.
- Shah was in Christchurch in 1898 but was hauled back to Dunedin by the Police to answer a charge laid by Isabella McGuire for failing to support his two illegitimate children, Solomon McGuire (born 1896) and Robert Gordon McGuire (born 1897). The well known Dunedin barrister, Hanlon represented Shah, and said McGuire was prepared to withdraw the information if Shah would “as soon as he was liberated, marry her”. And he did. In 1898 their marriage was registered, and baby Olive Evelyn Shah soon followed. Solomon died in 1909, at 270 St Asaph Street. Sources: Otago Daily Times, Issue 11181, 2 August 1898, Page 8 and Christchurch City Council Cemeteries Database.
- “Resident Magistrate’s Court” Otago Daily Times , Issue 9887, 4 November 1893, Page 3.
- Charles Abraham had carried out business on the corner of Lichfield and High streets, another busy intersection, and had been charged in September 1902 with impeding traffic. It was only a little over two months before he was up before the Magistrate again on the same offense. Sources: “Magistrate’s Court” Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11371, 6 September 1902, Page 5; “Magistrates’ Court” Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11443, 29 November 1902, Page 4.
- “Ice Cream Vendors. Trouble about Licenses” Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11186, 29 January 1902, Page 4; “Magistrates’ Courts” Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11192, 5 February 1902, Page 5; “The Ice Cream Vendor” Star, Issue 7370, 7 April 1902, Page 3; “Ice Cream Vending. Action against the City Council” Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11243, 8 April 1902, Page 3; “Ice Cream Case” Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7278, 24 April 1902, Page 3.
- “Supreme Court” Star , Issue 7408, 21 May 1902, Page 3; “Sittings in Banco” Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11280, 22 May 1902, Page 2; "Supreme Court” Star , Issue 7413, 27 May 1902, Page 3.
- Star, Issue 7405, 17 May 1902, Page 5.
- Brightlings Lane is a blind side street now long built over but was somewhere between Willow and Hurley Streets
- Taken at Ferrymead Heritage Park. Image: Wendy Riley, Lost Christchurch
- Image courtesy of Sarndra Lees. Random Meanderings.
- Source: Private Collection. Image: Christchurch City Libraries File Reference CD 18, IMG0047
- Star, Issue 9160, 14 February 1908, Page 3.
- Source: Christchurch City Libraries.
- New Zealand Truth, Issue 247, March 19th, 1910, Papers Past.
- Press, Volume LII, Issue 15500, 29 January 1916, Page 7.
- Source: One Photograph, Black & White, 11 x 15 cm, 1191 PhotoCD 18, IMG0045 Private collection.
- Florence Mahomet (later Wylie) was born in 1916. She died in 1998 and is buried with her father and grandfather in Linwood Cemetery.
- This backs the story that Sali was not from India but from the upper northern reaches of Asia.
- Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 293, 10 December 1932, Page 12; Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 140, 10 December 1932, Page 3. (Business offered for sale, owner plans to leave the country"
Early life
editSali Mahomet's date and place of birth are uncertain. Family tradition states that he was born in 1866 and named Mohammed Khan. His marriage certificate states his birthplace as Ceylon. His father, Sultan Mahomet was born in 1836 in Northern India. Father and son travelled through Australia and arrived in New Zealand in about 1894. Initially settling in Dunedin, they travelled on horseback selling household wares throughout rural Otago, Canterbury and Westland.
Reference
https://lostchristchurch.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/icecream-charlie-cathedral-square/
Ice cream trade
editIn 1903, Mahomet began selling ice cream from a cart pitched in Cathedral Square, Christchurch. The ice-cream business thrived and in 1907, Mahomet was able to buy land at 69 Caledonian Road where he erected a single storey dwelling. At that time electricity did not reach Caledonian Road so Mahomet had a lead extended to the “dairy” where he made his ice-cream. Initially ice was brought by horse and cart (later by truck) in one hundredweight blocks from the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company. Slabs of ice were packed around the ice cream in the “dairy” and Sali broke up ice with a mallet to keep the product cool while being transported to the Square.Trading occurred from August to the following April. Mahomet became known as "Ice Cream Charlie". The ice-cream cart is part of the Ferrymead Heritage Park collection. Citation required
Ice-cream was made before dawn initially in a hand-operated churn. In later years a Westinghouse machine was used, capable of producing four separate batches at once.Vanilla ice-cream was sold in tub-shaped cones. Sundaes were sold in glass dishes with silver spoons. The product range included take-home packs and customers could bring their own containers. Ice cream cost between one penny and one shilling.
Local institutions were recipients of copious amounts of ice cream on special occasions.
Mahomet operated strictly on a cash basis, had no dealings with banks and kept his money in a chest in the “dairy”. Loans made by Mahomet were on trust with no paper trail showing where his money had gone.
Personal Life
editOn 5 January 1906, Mahomet married domestic servant Florence Henrietta Johnston (sometimes "Johnstone") who was aged 19
| 1888/15405 | Johnstone | Florence Henrietta | Frances | John William |
at the Registrar’s Office in Christchurch. He stated his age as 27 but it is more likely that he was about 40. Note Groom's name given as "Sally"
| 1906/2269 | Florence Henrietta | Johnston | Sally | Mahomet |
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The couple had four daughters: Rahona (sometimes rendered Rahanie) Rupee, Tulah and Florence.
Racial attacks on Mahomet included calling him a “Turk” during World War I. Youths were heard to shout “Ching Chong, Indian” at him.
Cartoon of Sali Mahomet,
Press, 28 January 1939
In 1939 Sid Scales drew a cartoon of Mahomet picture who commented: “You know Sid, I told you I was not an Indian”.
Although Mahomet did not observe Islamic rituals, he kept a copy of the Koran and avoided pork, bacon, sausages and alcohol.
He had a keen interest in trotting and purchased two horses “Trooper Dillon” and “Will o” the Wisp”.
His knowledge of Asian languages was put to use in the courts where he acted as an interpreter often for foreign seamen.
His daughters read newspapers to him since he could not read English despite an excellent command of spoken English. He had a telephone well before they became commonplace in the city. He encouraged his daughters to gain good education.
In 1942, he suffered a stroke, The house and associated business premises were advertised for sale in Auckland[1] and Wellington.[2]
It appears that a legal firm defrauded him.The family had to sell the family home and moved to 55 Ward Street, Addington, Christchurch.
In April 1943 Sali moved to the Old Men’s Home, "Tuarangi" in Ashburton, where he suffered a second stroke and died on 7 October 1943.
| 1943/27865 | Mahomet | Sali | 77Y |
He was buried, with his father Sultan, in Linwood Cemetery.
Mahomet's wife and daughters managed to recover some of the family fortune.
His daugher Florence Wylie died in 1968 and is buried with Sali Mahoment at Linwod Cemetery, Christchurch.
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Ice-cream business to be sold (16 Jan 2022)
https://www.odt.co.nz/business/plan-take-ice-cream-charlie-nationwide
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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19321210.2.140.
Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 293, 10 December 1932, Page 12
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Thiird Ice Cream Charlie
Ken Barnes died 15 July 2018
"After meeting at a dance, Ken married Joan Wilkinson in 1948.
Joan's father, Victor James Wilkinson, was the city's second Ice Cream Charlie, taking the well-known role over from his competitor, Sali Mahomet. Sali founded the company with ice cream made in a hand-cranked churn and sold it from his red, white and gold ice cream cart in Cathedral Square from 1903. The frozen dessert was sold in cones, with flavoured sundaes served in glass dishes with silver spoons. When Sali died in 1943, Victor bought the lucrative business. After they married, Ken and Joan ran the cart alongside Victor for three decades
In the early years, the couple lived on Clarkson Ave and manned a new cart built by Ken under the name Vanilla Ices. The couple had three children together, Pam Richardson, Max Barnes and Lynne Baldwin, with Max joining the family ice cream business in 1986"
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$th owners of ICC (2014)
https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/blog/behind-the-scenes/2014/11/the-return-of-ice-cream-charlie
"Official encouragement to Raewyn and George Taylor, the proprietors, to try another site in the reopened CBD came to nothing: "We always wanted to go back to the spot," said Raewyn. "People know where we are."
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https://billiongraves.com/grave/Tulah-Toni-Wilson/30854296?referrer=myheritage
- ^ "Advertisements". Auckland Star. 10 December 1932. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ "Advertisements". Evening Post. 10 December 1932. Retrieved 18 April 2021.