MAYORAL CHAIN

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1930, Page 10

MAYORAL CHAIN

s FOUR MORE LINKS

The mayoral chain, at present of four links and double pendant, is shortly to have added four more links. The chain and pendant were presented to the city by Mrs. S. A. Bhodes in 1901, the makers being.Messrs. Elkington, of London, and. links were presented to commemorate the ■ terms of office ' as mayors of Mr. for. Hunter (Wellington's first Mayor, 1841), Mr. W. S. Moorhouse (1875), Mr. J. E. Blair (1898-9), and Mr. J. G. W. Aitken' <fl9ol-2). The gold chain and pendant are of very handsome workmanship. .The central medallion is in the form of the city's coat of arms, worked' in enamel, with the additio.n of a sword and mace, the whole-being ornamented with jewels. On the amalgamation of the borough of Melrose with the city the mayoral chain of the borough was formed into an additional pendant The links of the chain are in locket form, the fou.nd/i----tion. being of gold with'a centro of blue enamel encircled in an oval of pearls, the initials and year of office of each of the mayors who have contributed Jinks being engraved in the centre. The four new links, which havo been received from the London makers,- and are at' present being fitted in the chain have been presented by, or on behalf of, Mr. Samuel Brown (1887-88), Mr. John Duthie (1889), Sir Francis Bell (1892-93 and 1597), and Mr. 0. J. B. Norwood (1925-27). Since tho foundation of Wellington thirty-one mayors have hold office.