PITT MEMORIAL FUND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 19 August 1910, Page 6

PITT MEMORIAL FUND.

•Mr R. W. .Stiles, lion, fceeretary the Pitt memorial fund, recently adl- - a circular letter to the lead--Uff newspapers -of the Dominion, pointing out that it was proposed lo a nniblie nienioriaL to the late Colonel I'itt in Nelson, ami soliciting subscriptions towards the fund, and yesterday ho received the following 'etter from Mr .John (,'onolly, bari'istcr and solicitor, of Blenheim: —

'•'Dear Sir, —1 read your letter addressed to the editor of tlie ''Mailborough Jteralid" this morning, and hasten to be one of the first in this district to subscribe a small sum for n. memorial to the late llun. Colonel Pitt, aii.fi enclose my cheque for £o towards the same. Our late fri,end was for -ome time in partnership with, my late father, ex-Judge Conol'ly. in- "Wellington, au.d T acted in the capacity of managing clerk for them ; but both were more friends than, masters during that time; but long ibefore that, in- the sixties, and until quite a .few years ago, my father and Colonel Pitt were close friends, and were held by each other in h]*s"h estimation. The small sum I sen'd you is ibtit a very small token of my evteem for my late friend and tutor. '' August 16th. 1910.