HAROLD GEORGE: Celox and Victory
Harold James Couldrey George was born in Northcote, on New Year’s Day 1898, the first child of Hector Hugh George and Florence Couldrey. Hector worked for John Burns, in charge of their chandlery department. Florence was a member of the Couldrey family, farmers at Clevedon and Maraetai. They were also deeply involved in local shipping with their little steamer Hirere.
Harold went to Northcote Primary School and on to Auckland Grammar School, then in Symonds Street, and later studied law part-time at Auckland University College. Like many young men in New Zealand at the time Harold became an Army Territorial, with the Auckland Regiment, Third Battalion, where he received excellent training.
Growing up in the marine suburb of Northcote and being related to the Couldreys, especially his first cousin Arnold ‘Bill’ Couldrey, with his brothers-in-law George and Herbert Couldrey, which Bailey & Lowe built in 1904 for Henry Kasper.
