Plaque Wording:
{top}Erected by the people of Otago in the year 1865, to the memory of Captain William Cargill, the founder of this Settlement and the first Superintendent of the Province, he landed with the first party of settlers on the 25th day of March 1848, and died on the 6th day of August 1860.......Corporation of the City of Dunedin in the year 1872, being the XXXV year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.{bottom}Here The Salvation Army commenced its work in New Zealand April 1st 1883