OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16071, 12 May 1914, Page 7

OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.

The monthly committee meeting' of thr , Obago Early Settlers' Association was Held in the Board Room, Otago Early Settlert' Hall, yesterday afternoon; present-Messrs v fionald Reid, president (in the chair), John Duthie.i W. H. Ferens, E. C. Hazlett, A. B Mercer, W. Nicolson, Donald Roid, jun., T Sommerville, Mrs C. H. Hayward, Mb' M. Barnes, Mrs Sinclair Peden, Mr G. ,C. Proudfoot (hon. treasurer), Mr John Wood Secretary). ■ .4 -)■> The balance sheet for tile year ending 1 - April 30 was read by the hon. tho draft copy of the annual report was . approved, / and the date for holding ihe annual meeting was fixed for Wednesday. . : May 20. , ■ A vote of thanks was passed for the, following' presentations. to the museum ana portrait ga lery :--To Mr George Fen wick, tor enlarged framed portrait of his. father, , Mr Robert Fenwick, passenger by the ship Challenger (1856); to Mrs, H. Stanley, for . oak churn with plunger, brought out and used in tho early days; to Mr M Alister; for miner's right; 1863; to Dr Fulton, for framed subscription jist, in which" a of well-known solicitors' ; signatures appea-C opposite subscriptions varying from a far? thing to twopence, the occasion being we. purchasing. for the late Mr G. H. Barnes, , court bailiff," of a pair of slippers to bis worn in court in lieu of the heavy boots h6 now wears." - ' The following names of early settlers, who had passed away were recorded on ; the • minutes Mrs W, Patrick (nee Simpson Mary, 1849; Alexander Pullan (74), Pladda, iB6O- Mary Frnser M'Glaehun, Rajah, 1853r, John Howard Roberts (55), Chili, 1860; Mrs John Bathgate (nee Grant), Storm Cloud, v 1860; Elizabeth Kerr Hay. arrived 1864; James Palmer (79), Gabriors Gully, 1861; James Fulton i Neil (71), Gabriel's Gully, 1861; Mrs Mary Crawford Stevenson (80), Slains (3astle, 1852. . ■ ■