OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.

Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 3

OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.

The monthly meeting of committee^ was held in the board room, Gtago Early Settlers’ Hall, on the 20th instant;_ present —Messrs‘ Donald Reid (president, in the chair), G. L. Denniston, W. Nicolson, J. MTndoe, Dr Fulton, Mrs C. H. Hayward, Mrs M. Barnes, Sinclair Peden, G. C. Proudfoot (hon. treasurer),, and John Wood (secretary). * > j » A vote of was pa(§s‘ed to the following for gifts to the portrait gallery and museumMr D. Brent, for photo of the wreck of the Pride of the Yarra, from sketch taken at low water on January 23, 1865; Mr H. B. Flett, for curious growthof tree resembling horse hoof and frog, cut in section Iff, block VII, North Harbour and Blueskin district;, the Mr Ralf Ewing’s executors, for Oil painting of Mr Ewing, passenger by the ship Robert Henderson, 1864-; Mr George Gibb, Wellington, for framed photographic panorama of North Dunedin, taken from Bell Hill, showing First Church manse, built of wood, 1861, which was occupied by Dr Burns and family on their removal from the old manse at the corner of Jetty and Princes streets, removed about 1864, in consequence of Bell Hill being cut down; the flax bushes are seen growing on the northern slope, and the high water mark showing where Great King street now is, the whole being a splendid picture of Dunedin North in 1862, also framed panorama of Maclaggan and Rattray streets, 1862; Mrs K. E. M. Smith, for framed enlarged photos of her father and mother, Mr and Mrs George Duncan, pasengers by the ship Mooltan, 1849; Mrs Gerrie and family, for framed photo of the late Mr James Gerrie, passenger by the ship Salopian, 1860. The following names of early settlers who have passed away were recorded in the minutes: —John Bruce (78), Robert Henderson, 1862; Mrs Peter Murray M‘Gregor (79), Robert Henderson, 1858; Mrs Marion Noble Waddell (89), Silistria, 1860; Mrs Mary Ann Aughan Stewart (81), arrived 1857; John M'Donald (87), Gala, 1860; Hugh Crawford (77), City of Dunedin, 1863; William Foss (71), Otago Goldfields, 1862; Mrs Ann Paton"( 93), Clutha, 1854; Mrs Dafforn (73), arrived 1861; James Towers (92), arrived 1861; Archibald M‘Galium (79), Pladda, 1860; James Andrew Townsend (73), arrived 1863 j James Jago (54), Cheviot, 1862; William Hope Miller (72), Jura, 1858; James Farquharson (90); James Gardiner, arrived 1862; Augustus Hutton Shury (82), arrived 1860; James Anderson (91), arrived 1855.