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Lot 1802    Day 2    Paper Documents

Estimate $350
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CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION, to E.Dockrill, Esq., Mayor of New Plymouth 1897 to 1903 and Mrs Dockrill, colourful hand designed certificate on card by Hooker & Scott, New Plymouth and signed by nine Councillors and the Town Clerk, dated New Plymouth, 13th May, 1903, bound in a handcrafted leather with gilt presentation book (460x310mm), silver plaque on front inscribed 'E.Dockrill, Esq/Mayor of New Plymouth/1897 to 1903/Councillor/1885-1888, 1889-1897'. Very fine.

Edward Dockrill (1838 - 19 November 1927) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 8th Mayor of New Plymouth.^^Dockrill was born in County Wexford, Ireland in 1838. He left Ireland and moved to New Zealand in 1866 aboard the ship Ballarat, landing in Auckland. He then spent fourteen years gold mining on the West Coast and later in Thames. In 1880 he moved to New Plymouth and set up business there as a shoemaker. He later married Elizabeth Bosworth on 26 December 1882.^^In August 1885, Dockrill was elected to the New Plymouth council and served until he was elected as Mayor of New Plymouth in December 1897. He served until May 1903 and was re-elected for a second spell as Mayor between 1906 and 1908. He also served on the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, the local school committee, and a member of the Board of Governors of New Plymouth High School.^^Dockrill stood for Parliament in the 1887 election for the Taranaki electorate, coming third. He later stood in the Taranaki by-election, 1907 as the officially endorsed candidate of the Liberal Party, coming a close second.^^Dockrill died in New Plymouth on 19 November 1927.^^(Courtesy Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia).