PRESENTATION.

Evening Star, Issue 6472, 13 December 1883, Page 4

PRESENTATION.

A number of the councillors and ex-coun-cillors of Mornlngton Borough assembled in the local Borough Hall last evening to make a presentation to Mr Thomas Brown, the retiring Mayor. The presentation took the form of ah ilbltfllutithd address, prepared Mb 11. H. Turner, of Port Chalmers, which read as follows We, the members of the Mornington Borough Council who have held office during your Mayoralty, would now at its close take the opportunity of expressing a sense of our appreciation of the manner in which you have discharged the onerous duties appertaining to the office of Mayor. Your uniformly courteous and conciliatory conduct while presiding over our deliberations has been such as to command the esteem of us ail; and now when our connection is about to be severed, wo trust you will carry with you many pleasant recollections of your association with ua during your term of office.—J. E. Dcnniston, R. S. Nicholson, C. W. Smith, H, F. Norman, W. R. Carey, William Campbell, Ilaroeh Frapwoil, W. C. M‘Nce, Francis B. Smith (town clerk). Mr Denniston, in making the jiresenta* tion, referred .to thb cervices rendered the Borough bjr the Mayor, and said that he hoped Mr Brown would long keep the address as a memorial of the good feeling that existed between him and the Council. He ventured to express a hope that Mr Brown had not altogether severed his connection with the Council, but would at some future timo give them tho benefit of hia experience. Mr Brown said it would be within the recollection of some councillors that for the first few months he had some disagreeable duties to perform. He had, however, come to the Council determined to do his duty, and altogether they had got on very well together. He referred to works undertaken by the Tramway Company during his terra of office, and said he hoped to see them extending their operations very soon to the full extent of their concession. The tramway was an exceedingly valuable acquisition to the municipality, and would tend to make it one of the most important in the vicinity of Dunedin. He thanked them very heartily for the handsome presentation they had made him.