A PUBLIC-SPIRITED CITIZEN.
Quite a few townships in the Dominion can number among their citizen? gentlemen whose benefactions will perpetuate their memories for all time. Nelson is one of these. ft possesses in Mr Thomas Cawtliron a gentleman who is striving to make the town of his adoption a place worth living in. He has just offered a sum of between £IO,OOO and £12,000 to build, equip, and endow a solar physics observatory in the neighbourhood of Nelson. Previous benefactions included the cost (£2000) of a fine flight of granite steps up Church Hill. He spent £BOO in improving tlxe Rocks road, gave about £IOOO to the local library, and contributed several thousand pounds, beside an organ costing £3OOO, to the School of ■Music. We have in Masterton a number af wealthy residents who made their fortunes from the in which they live. May wa hope that o*e ar more o£ them may
be i>n4lu«iK'«d by th« example of Mr CawtliTon to endow th? town in such tt way that their memories may be hold -in grateful recoflection by th.' generations thwt will come 'after tliem? How few are there who appreciate the depth of meaning in th words, "It is more blessed to give than to receive!"
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 May 1913, Page 4
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208A PUBLIC-SPIRITED CITIZEN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 May 1913, Page 4
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