Just received as a donation is a beautiful illuminated testimonial, made in 1919, presented by Manly Methodist Church to one of its Trustees, Mr W H Fletcher, who was retiring from Manly. Mr Fletcher was a former Alderman of Manly, so it is fitting that the Testimonial should find its way to Local Studies for safe-keeping. The donor found it in a skip as an item of rubbish, and went to the trouble of contacting us to arrange its preservation. Signatories to the Testimonial include fellow Trustees of the Manly Methodist Church, including well-known, and in their day influential citizens such as R J Wild, Philip Heard and Norman Goetze.
This is the second fine donation to have come in in recent months from rubbish tips, so keep a look-out: what's rubbish to some people is important heritage to many others.
