[Photograph album] Presented to Abel Wilkins, Esqr. by the Eight Hour League Wellington, Jany. 1906

PXA 1877

fonds

1902-1906

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs, Drawings

1045486

1 album (48 photographic prints) - gelatin silver, with illuminated address in black ink and watercolour - photographs 14 x 19.5 cm, album 20.7 x 27.2 cm

Reference:
Australian Town and Country Journal, Wednesday 4 November 1903 p.22

Illuminated address to Abel Wilkins from the Eight Hour Association of Wellington

1. Eight Hour League, Wellington
Front row, left to right: A. Kennard, A. Wilkins (Secretary), Alderman J.F. Walker (President), W.R. Mitchell (Joint Secretary), R. Kiss
Back row: G. McDonald, A. Davidson, George Seymour (Vice President), J. Dick (Vice President), D. Rolston, D. Elliott

2. View of Wellington, 1903
3. No. 1 street procession, Eight Hour Demonstration, 1902
4. Wellington Hospital
5. No. 2 street procession - J. Restall's exhibit - with Abel in the cask, 1903
6. Public buildings [mosaic]
7. Chas Broderick's exhibit, 1902
8. R. Tait's baker's exhibit, 1903
9. 1st railway loco exhibit, 1903
10. At the station - decorated locomotive [no. 155] in honor [sic] of Eight Hour Day, 1903
11. Railway banner at station [New South Wales Locomotive, Engine Drivers, Firemen and Cleaners Association]
12. Procession to showground, 1904
13. Railway exhibit, 1904
14. Fr George Reid:- mounted
15. Railway exhibit at showground, 1904
16. Locomotive and the builders [Railway exhibit at showground, 1904]
17. Scotch [sic] pipers at Sports, 1904
18. George Seymour's barbers exhibit, 1904
19. Jos. Thompson's blacksmiths exhibit, 1904
20. Brewery exhibit, 1904
21. H. Nancarrow's sawmill and foundry exhibits, 1904
22. E.A. Fulton's tea exhibit, 1904 [at E.A. Fulton's menswear shop]
23. R. Kimbell's bakery exhibit, 1904
24. Worst turn-out, 1904
25. E. Jones carrier [Tooheys], 1904
26. At the Sports, Showground, 1904
27. Irish Rifles Band [and Lighthorse], 1905
28. Procession to Showground, 1905
29. Loco exhibit, 1905
30. Railway engineers and blacksmiths' exhibit
31. Railway car drawn by J. Offner's traction engine, 1905
32. Railway boiler-maker's exhibit, [1905 - S. Ottaway, W. Martin, L. Muller]
33. C.J. Shakespeare's exhibit, 1905
34. Mattheson's cordial manufacturers exhibit, 1905
35. G.E. Wise & Co.'s Federal Stores exhibit, 1905
36. H. Rudd's coachbuilding exhibit, 1905
37. Abel Wilkins' stove exhibit, 1905 [Ross and Frank Wilkins on the float]
38. C. Broderick's exhibit
39. John Ley saddlers exhibit, 1905
40. H. Austin's blacksmithing and shoeing exhibit
41. [Asphalting works], Municipal council's exhibit, 1905
42. T. McGeorge [sewing machine] exhibit, 1905
43. [Japs], Exhibition by Salvation Army, 1905
44. Plumbing exhibit of E. Ball, 1905
45. Display of Australian Light Horse on Showground, 1905
46. Club drill by public school girls at Sports, 1905
47. Public school boys drilling at sports, 1905 [George Grey Wilkins, 2nd from right, dark shirt]
48. Drill at Sports by public school girls, 1905

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

PXA 1877/no. 9 published in Australian Town and Country Journal, Wednesday 4 November 1903 p.22

Exhibits are horsedrawn floats

Cover title : gilt on ox blood leather

Contents from captions in red ink

"To Abel Wilkins, Esq., Wellington.

Dear Mr Wilkins, The Eight Hour Association of Wellington, wishing to mark in some slight degree their appreciation of your efforts as Secretary of the Association for years past, think that no better memento can be presented to you, than a series of photographs taken of the processions and other features of the present and past years.

We are aware that the intrinsic value of the gift is small, but as we are all workers and of but little substance individually, we hope, as indeed we are aware, that you will place a value on it commensurate with the expression of our feelings which it exemplifies.

We are honestly and deeply grateful to you for your continuous and untiring efforts in the movement, one result of which is the local hospital has benefited by many hundreds of pounds, and we recognise, that the principal factor in achieving the result we have achieved, is the sustained energy, and the strong personality of our genial Secretary.

May he and his live long and prosper, is the earnest wish of the Assocation, for whom we subscribe ourselves,

Yours sincerely,
President J. Fleming-Walker; Members A. Kennard, Andrew Davidson, Wm. Pritchett, D. Elliott, M. Celly, G.M. McDonald, J. Dick V.P."

Reference:
Text of the illuminated address on the first pages of the photograph album

Photographs by Elite Studio, Wellington
Reference: Float, Eight Hour Procession, Wellington, 1905 / photographer Elite Studio, Wellington (SPG/37), a copy of which is also on p. 32 of this album