"OLD IDENTITY" TO THE EDITOR.
Sir,— Your correspondent, "Old Subscriber," is both wrong and partly right in his solution of the origin of the term "old identity." It was Sir. E. B. Cargill (nob Captain Cargill) who, by a chance phrase in the Otago Provincial Council, coined the expression. Thatcher, in a humorous song of seven or eight verses in _ the same strain, brought it into prominence. These are the opening lines, which speak for themselves :—: — Mr. Cargill in the Council made such a funny speech. He got up, and he stated that it devolved on each Of all the early settlers to preserve as safe could be, Amidst Victorian influx, our old identity. A copy of Thatcher's songs, containing the above lines, can be seen at the office of the Early Settlers' Association, Dunedin. — I am, etc., OLD IDENTITY.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 78, 2 April 1914, Page 3
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