OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS’ ASSOCIATION

Evening Star, Issue 15914, 21 September 1915, Page 9

OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS’ ASSOCIATION

The monthly meeting of committee - was held in the board room, Otago' Early Settlers’ Hall,, yesterday afternoon; present—Messrs Donald Reid (president, in the chair), G. L. Denniston, - W. Nicolson/ J. M’lndoe, Dr Fulton, Mrs ‘C. M. Hayward, Miss M. Barnes, Sinclair Peden, G. C. Proudfoot (hbn. treasurer), and John Wood (secretary). A vote of thanks was passed to the following for gifts to the portrait gallery and museum: —Mr D. Brent, for photo of the wreck of the Pride of the Yarra, from sketch taken at low water on January 23, 1865; Mr H. B. Flett, for curious growth of tree resembling horse hoof and frog, cut in section 19, block Vn., North Harbor and Blueskin district j the late Mr Ralf Ewing’s executors, for oil painting of Mr Ewing, passenger by the ship Robert Henderson, 1854; Mr George Gibb, Wellington, for framed photographic panorama of North Dunedin, taken from Bell Hill, showing First Church manse, built of wood, 1851, which was occupied by Dr Burns and family on their removal from the old manse at the corner of Jetty and Princes streets, removed about 1854, in consequence of Bell Hill being cut down (the flax bushes are seen growing on the northern slope, and the high-water mark showing where Great King street now is, the whole being a splendid picture of Dunedin North in 1862), also framed panorama of Maclaggan and Rattrav streets, 1862; Mrs K. E. M. Smith, for framed enlarged photos of her father and mother, Mr and Mrs George Duncan passengers by the ship Mooltan, 1849; Mrs Gerrie and family, for framed photo of the late Mr James Gerrie, passenger by the ship Salopian, 1860. The following names of early settles who have passed away were recorded in the minutes:—John Bruce (78), Robert Henderson, 1862; Mrs Peter Murray M’Grogor (79), Robert Henderson, 1858; Mrs Marion Noble Waddell (89), Silistria, 1860; Sirs Alary Ann Aughan Stewart (81) arrived 1857; John M’Donald (87), Gala, 1860; Hugh Crawford (77). City of Duiledin, 1853; William Foss (7l), Otago Goldfields, 1862; Airs Ann Paton (93,, Clutha, 1854; Airs Dafforn (73), arrived 1851; James Towers (92), arrived 1861; Archibald M’Callum (79), Pladda, 1«6C; James Andrew Townsend (73), arrived' 1836; James Jago (54), Cheviot, 1862; William Hope Aliller (72), Jura, 1858; James Farquharson (90); James Gardiner, arrived 1852; Augustus Hutton Shiny (82) arrived I860; James Anderson r9l; arrived 1855.