PRESENTATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8931, 15 July 1892, Page 10 (Supplement)

PRESENTATIONS.

Thk members of the German Club met on the 6th July at their club-room, in Luks' Victoria Hotel, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the organisation. The club is in a good position, and has acquired a very valuable and select library of over 1000 volumes, besides a number of the best illustrated and other German magazines. All these arc at the disposal of the members. Before the proceedings terminated the members presented Mr. Hermann Brown, the president of the club, who is about to leave for England, with a very handsome cigar and cigarette case. Mr. Brown lias been filling the post of German Consul at Auckland. We understand that the duties of the Consulate have been transferred for the present to Mr. Seegner (of the firm of Seegner, Langguth, and Co.), of this city. A handsome present has been '„'iven by the employes of Messrs. Brown, Barrett, and o. to Mrs. Brown, wife of Mr. Herman Brown. It. consists of a handsome fan, out of seventeen different pieces of polished' New Zealand woods. The handle is of silver, and on a -ilver plate on the fan is a suitable inscription in honour of the fair recipient. An illuminated address from the citizens of Auckland was presented on the 13fh July at the Auckland Harbour Board offices to Mr. Brown. Mr. C. C. McMillan, chairman of the Harbour Board, presented the address, which was engrossed and illuminated by Mr. W. Gulliver, and is a handsome and striking specimen of the designer's art. It has a neat border, with tastefullyworked scroll-pieces, and above the text are the Imperial arms of Germany. On June 24, on the eve of the midwinter holidays, Miss Grant, senior assistant teacher of the Parncll Public School, was presented by Mr. P. Leonard, head master, on behalf of the teachers and pupils, with a case con taining 12 volumes of choice poetry by celebrated authors, also a hand bag. Mr. J. Crisp, who has been for the past ten years Railway Inspector of Permanent Way at Newmarket, having received orders to take up a similar position in the South Island, left on Thursday, July 7, from the Manukau. Mr. Crisp's fellow-employes presented him with a purse of sovereigns, as a token of the esteem in which he has been held in all the departments of the service.