PRESENTATION TO MR T. BEACKEN.
♦ [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, August 13. Mr Thomas Bracken, who leaves Dunedin on Friday to settle in Wellington, was presented to-day with a purse of 180 soys, subscribed by the citizens of Dunedin. There were CO or 70 gentlemen present. The Mayor was in the chair, and the presentation was made by Mr George Fenwick, Managing Director of the Otago Daily Times. Mr -Amies, on behalf of the enginedrivers and firemen of the railway, presented Mr Bracken with a handsomelyframed address, and with a set of diamond earrings and a brooch for Mrs Bracken. The 1.0.0. F., in which Mr Bracken was D.D.G.M., subscribed amongst themselves a souvenir in the shape of a diamond I locket, and merged the balance of their I subscriptions into the general fund. j
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5080, 14 August 1884, Page 3
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