OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS’ ASSOCIATION.

Otago Witness, Issue 3148, 15 July 1914, Page 48

OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS’ ASSOCIATION.

The monthly meeting of the committee of the Otago Early Settlers Association was held in the Early Settlers’ Hall on Monday afternoon; present —Messrs Donald Reid (in the chair), John Duthie, Dr Fulton, W. H. •Ferens (vice-presidents), G. L. Denniston, A. B. Mercer, E. C. Hazlctt, W. Nioolson, J. Hope, G. Calder, Mrs C. H. Hayward, Mrs M. Barnes, Mrs Sinclair Pedon, Mr G. C. Proudfoot (hon. treasurer), and Mr John Wood (secretary). A circular from members of the committee, arranging for the care of the lato Mr Thomas Bracken’s grave, was read, and it was left in the hands of the secretary to arrange for subscriptions. The Secretary reported that the head master of the Ravensbourne School (Mr J. B. Grant), with senior scholars, had visited the Early Settlers’ Museum and Portrait Gallery, in the way of following up lessons in the early history of Otago, and that great interest was shown by the pupils in the explanatory remarks of Mr Ferens and Mr Wood. A letter was received from Mr J. Cams Ellis, grandson of the Revs. Dr Burns, offering to the association the “Philip Laing Bible” and documents of interest, to bo placed in the museum. —The conditions were accepted, and the committee expressed the pleasure it would feel to have the articles added to the association’s collection. A vote of thanks was passed to the following:—To Thomas Baxter, Waikouaiti, for a collection of trade tokens issued in the fifties and early sixties instead of pennies and halfpennies, the regulation penny being an almost unknown quantity; to the directors of the Otago Daily Times and Witness Company, for the old Albion printing press on which the Otago Witness was pn nted in the fifties. The following names of early settlors who had passed away were recorded on the minutes:—W. J.‘ Hall (82), arrived 1863; Archibald M‘Galium (83). arrived 1861; Frank Augustus Quick (76),_ arrived 1862; Mrs William Dellow (74), arrived 1862; Mrs Mary Jane Ross (75), arrived 1853; David Hunter (77), arrived 1862: Mrs Kate Joan Boot (71), Robert Henderson, 1858; Mrs Sarah Craig Lcishrnan (66), Aboukir, 1861; James Rattray (79), Gala. 1860; W. D. Woods (74), Sevilla, 1859; John Niven (73), Eureka, 1861; James Mathcson (81), Resolute, 1864 ; Robert Chisholm (71), Three Bells, 1853; John Anderson (75), City of Dunedin, 1864.