OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS’ ASSOCIATION.
The monthly meeting of the committee was held in the board room of the Otago Early Settlers’ Hall on Monday afternoon; present: Messrs Donald Reid, president (in the chair), John Duthie, G. L. Denniston, E. C. Hazlett, W. Nicolson, J. MTndoe, Mrs O. H. Hayward, Mrs Sinclair Peden, Mr G. C. Proudfoot (hon. treasurer), and Mr John Wood (secretary). A vote of thanks was passed for tho following gifts to the portrait gallery: Mr Jas. Grundy, for family group and photograph of his father and mother, passengers by tho Gil Bias, 1856; Mr C. P. M'Donald, for framed enlarged photograph of his father, Archibald M’Donald, passenger by the Philip Laing, 1848. Attention was drawn to the number of passengers by tho ship Blundell, 1848, whose names appear in tho following list of early settlers who have passed away : John Sidey (93), Blundell, 1848; Adam Anderson (78), Blundell, 1848; Mrs Pearson, nee Gibson (83), Blundell, 1848 ; Mrs Janet Wilson, nee Begg (72), Blundell, 1848; Mrs Alexander, neo Falconer, Henrietta, 1860; Peter M‘Neill_ (82), arrived 1860; Henry Richmond, arrived 1858.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3200, 14 July 1915, Page 55
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182OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS’ ASSOCIATION. Otago Witness, Issue 3200, 14 July 1915, Page 55
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