Old identities reunite
03/24/2025 11:30 AM
1848-1853 arrivals pose at Early Settlers' Hall, Dunedin on Otago Anniversary Day. Back row: Messrs W.R. Jeffreys, John Ayson, J.A.D. Adams, David Strain, James Ayson, W.R. Berry. Front row: Mrs Jas. Ayson, Mr Wm. Aitken. Mrs Finlay, Mrs Robt. Law, Mr Thos. Thomson, Mrs M.J. Johnston (last surviving daughter of Captain Cargill), Mr Wm. Black, Mrs Marion Allen, Mr J.H. Seaton, Mrs F. McGoun. — Otago Witness, 7.4.1925 The gatherings held this year to celebrate the seventy-seventh anniversary of the province have been of a particularly hearty and happy character, so much so that, in the opinion of not a few the celebrations have been the most successful that the Otago Early Settlers' Association has yet organised.
