PRESENTATIONS.
-— * On Thursday last Miss Loudon, who has been assistant mistress of the Waipori School for .the last 12 years, was presented by. the residents with an address and a purse of sovereigns on the occasion of her leaving to take up a similar position in the Highcliß School. Mr S. Caudwell, the chairman of the School Committee, made the presentation, and Mr Kerr, head teacher, suitably replied on Miss Loudon s behalf. .At a meeting in the Mount Cargill Schoolroonron Friday evening, Mr Tennent presented Mr Thomson with a handsome travelling ba<* and a pencil case. The former gift bears the in" scription, "Presented to D. H. Thomson by the church members of Mount Cargill, August' 19, 1898." In making the presentation, Mr Tennent referred to the excellent service .MiThomson had rendered to the church by coming from Dunedin Sunday after Sunday for over eight years to act as precentor. . The con<re"agation, he said, also owed to him a debt °of gratitude for the energy and perseverance which he had shown in securing for them an organ, to assist in beautifying their worship. Mr Thomson replied, thanking the cong^ nation for the beautiful and useful present th°ey had made him.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11199, 23 August 1898, Page 3
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201PRESENTATIONS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 11199, 23 August 1898, Page 3
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