Lot 2973

Description

Presentation medal, in silver (30x40mm), with suspender scroll, obverse inscribed, 'Presented/To/Weeks White, Esq/President of the/E.B.Band/By/The Members', reverse inscribed, 'April 27 - 94' inside an engraved scroll. Good very fine.

Mr Weeks White was proprietor of a bakery and an alderman on Newtown Council. Prior to his departure for an extended trip to Europe he was honoured by a reception of the council held at Newtown Town Hall on Tuesday night 17 April 1894 and then in the evening of the following Saturday by a gathering of no less than about 100 employees, bandsmen and a few young ladies and gentlemen who met at his bunting decorated Enmore bakery for a send off function. On behalf of the employees of his Enmore and Waterloo bakery establishments he was presented with an illuminated address by Mr Sharp, foreman of the Waterloo establishment. He was also presented with a badge and silver medal by Mr Palmer on behalf of members of the Enterprise Brass Band in testimony of the support they had received from him since the band's formation. The function closed with a rendering of 'He's a Jolly Good Fellow' and 'God Save the Queen'.

The Enterprise Brass Band had been formed by Weeks White in order to give his employees recreation and he had engaged Mr John Palmer of the Sydney City Mission No.1 Brass Band to undertake conductorship. The band appeared for the first time in public in uniform on Wednesday 4 June 1890.