OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21979, 14 June 1933, Page 11

OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS

MEETING OF COMMITTEE

The monthly meeting of the committee of the Otago Early Settlers’ Association was held'yesterday. There were present: -—Messrs J. J. Mallard (in the chair), P. W. Knight, W. Nicolson, James Brown, H. Baron, J. Hope, R. S. J. A. Macdonald, E. C. Hazlett, W, H. Ferens, W. J. Strong, J. A. Paterson, E. Webster, A. Eccles, D. J. Calder, and C. C. Robertson. Apologies were received from Messrs Crosby Morris, J. W, Patton, and J. C. H; Somerville. ' . . The following gifts were received and votes of thanks passed to the donors;— Samuel Baxter, North-East Valley, twp old Italian coins. Mr F. H. Dampen, Dunedin, very old military powder horn. W Webster, Cargill road, Dunedin, old coin dated 1857. Mrs. W. O’Leary. Tennyson street, Dunedin, framed photographs of her late parents—Mr and Mrs W. H. Bevin, Dunedin; Mr Bevin, Oscar,-1861; Mrs Bevin (nee Hughes), Pladda, 1862. Frederick George Wayne, Parawai, Thames, letter written by his late father —Frederick Wayne, Waikouaiti —dated October 4, 1862, to his father, the Rev. W. H. Wayne, vicar of Havelock. Shropshire, England. The mail boat was wrecked and the letter was recovered from the wreckage. G. D. Fisher, Hampden, complete issue of the Dominion _Scout, the official organ of Boy and Girls Scouts, from May, 1910, to April, 1913. J. W. O’Connell, Dunedin, French com. Mrs John Hope, Mornington, old tea _caddy presented to her mother, Mrs W. Inglis, on leaving Glasgow; in 1860. William Hughes, Dunedin, old race card.-Tuapeka races, dated 1877, The Rev. T. A. Pybus, Port Chalmers, leaflet of “ Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society (New Zealand branch) of December, 1932,” which contains some very interesting history of “Old Otakou ”; also some sermon notes of the late Rev. J. Watkin, the wellknown missionary at Waikouaiti, m a wonderful state of preservation. The following deaths were recorded during the month: —Mrs Elizabeth Redpath, Waitahuna (77), Robert Henderson, 1860; Edmund Hodgkinson, Hawea Flat, late Longslip, Station, Waitaki (91), arrived 1857. ■ ... Eleven descendants of ■ early settlers were enrolled during the month.