AN INTERESTING MEMENTO

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 22, 18 May 1914, Page 6

AN INTERESTING MEMENTO

At the birthday banquet tendered, to Sir Francis Suttor in Sydney recently, an interesting relic, in the. form of tho first railway ticket isr sued in connection with the, opening of the railway line from Sydney to Parramatta in 1855, was made available by Mr Kenneth Charlton, of the Legislative Council staff;. The ticket is. the property of the. family of the late, Mr, William Day, of Ealing, Edgecliff KiOad,, whose brother, Mr Thomas. Day, was the original purchaser. Mr. Day noted on the back of, tho ticket that it was . purchased at 8.20 a.m. on September 26, 1555. Os also, purchased and used No. 2 ticket, retaining No. 1 as a memento of. the., day of opening. The ticket was, exhibited in the Garden, Palace Exhibition in 1879. Messrs William and Thomas Day were sons of the late Mr Thomas Day, of Pyrmont, who was born in Sydney in 1798, his father having arrived, in the colony a s ah officer with the First Fleet. Mr Day afterwards became the proprietor of an extensive boat-building establishment near the foot of Margaret Street, where many of the first whaling boats were constructed for the Government. It is also an interesting fact that Mr Day exhibited some specimens of Australian timbers at : the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace (Kensington Gardens), London, in 1851, and was awarded a bronze modal, still in the possession of the, family.