Brother Britons Beyond the Seas.

Progress, Volume VI, Issue 4, 1 February 1911, Page 536

Brother Britons Beyond the Seas.

At the \ Wellington headquarters of the New Zealand Branch of the Institute of Marine Engineer!, there was, in the .middle, of the month, a notable presentation.,, Mr. Reddaway (the head of the firm of Reddaway & Co., of Manchester, ironmasters)' being struck by some pictures—probably those published in Progress some months agoof the Institute’s handsome building lately erected on its commanding site in

Aitken Street, determined to take a hand in the adornment. lie accordingly purchased Perron’s masterpiece, “Industry” ; (Le Travail), and sent it out to “My '•Brother Britons beyond the seas.” On 1 January 17th the Minister of Marine, Hon. ; J. A’.' Millar, presented the handsome gift '•■-to the President, Mr. Wallace, in the presence of a representatiye gathering, and Air. Wallace, on behalf of the Institute, made suitable and graceful reply. „ It was announced that the Institute had made Mr.

Keddaway a life member, and sent ini its commemorative gold medal. The bronze oi the presentation is the statue of a young worker, an ideal figure of Industry, sinewy, strong, graceful, in a moment of repose, as signified by the heavy hammer behind him, but braced alert, ready to resume the. interrupted task with cheerfulness,- energy and endurance: a magnificent conception of calm force. .>