SALVOR KHARMADH

Salvor Kharmadh (17/11/1857 - 29/10/1932) was a Hinji politician who was the leader of the Hinji uprising leading to the formation of the Land of Hinji Free State in 1919. Kharmadh was born in Lucaya,HIN and his mother was a Maori descendant. He studied Law in Oamaru's Mik Romer University and was involved in Hinji nationalist movements from an early age. He was a founding member of the separatist National Agricultural Party (NAP) and became a Party President in 1905. In 1912 he succeeded in having a Hinji Home Rule bill introduced to the British Parliament by British Prime Minister H.H. Asquith, where it was rejected by the House of Lords on the grounds that the Dominion was indivisible. After the Hinji Autumn Rising of 1917 he forced a Hinji regional election persuading all Hinji MPs of the Pharonian Parliament to resign. On 21 January 1919 under his leadership, Hinji MPs refusing to sit in the Pharonian Parliament at Hilvar, assembled in Oamaru and formed a single-chamber Hinji parliament called Stormtok (Assembly of Hinji). It affirmed the creation of a "Hinji Republic" and passed a Declaration of Independence. On October 11 negotiations were opened under British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Jan Veiss and Salvor Kharmad, who headed the "Hinji Republic" delegation. On October 19, 1919 the Anglo-Hinji Treaty was passed in the British Parliament and Salvor Kharmadh was the first Prime Minister of the Land of Hinji. He stayed in office until 1927. Kharmadh never married and lived with his younger brother, Ari Kharmadh, a distinguished engineer and famous cook who, as "Ali Baba," published a classic cookbook. He died in Oamaru and in his last years he had suffered from Parkinson's disease.