Mr Featherston and Mr Brandon rise from the dead
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Mr Featherston and Mr Brandon rise from the dead
This is a replacement, of a replacement of a replacement cache! The original cache in this location (GC38F6A-Mr Featherston and Mr Brandon) was fun, but fragile, and got muggled a number of times leading to its eventual archiving. But this is too good a location to go uncached, and so we have taken up the challenge of trying to hide another better hidden cache in this incredibly busy and visible location, while your challenge is to find it without being noticed and the cache getting muggled. These demands mean the cache is a bit different, and this puts restrictions on having a traditional logbook.
This meant that in the past we had a system where it wasn't logged in the normal way, but instead we tried something a bit new and had finders email an important secret from the cache to the CO before logging. This method while seemingly popular with finders, unfortunately falls outside the rules of being a Traditional Cache, so now (from 27/3/18 onwards) there is a logsheet included with the cache. Pens will work but pencils won't as it's waterproof paper. Also please initials only and keep your writing small as otherwise the log will fill too quickly. Fingers crossed this method is durable enough for the Wellington environment.
And please let me know when the logsheet is getting full, or if the bluetack is failing!
This location is right on a very busy intersection in the heart of the CBD. It's a great place to stop and observe the action of our modern city- but this junction also brings together two of the important figures from Wellington's past- Earl Featherston, M.D and Alfred de Bathe Brandon- whose contribution to our city you may care to remember when you walk these streets.
"Isaac Earl Featherston, M.D (1813-1876), will ever remain an outstanding figure of Wellington's Provincial Period. He combined the highest ability with the purest devotion to service. Having accepted for health reasons the post of ship's surgeon to the New Zealand Company's vessel "Olympus," he reached Wellington, May, 1841, and as well as the practice of his profession, was soon drawn into the current of public affairs. For fifteen years he represented the city continuously in the Central Parliament, and during the whole of the Provincial Period, except for a spell at the end, when he accepted the post of Agent-General in London, the first to hold it, he was the Superintendent of Wellington Province, honored and esteemed by all, poor in worldly wealth, but rich beyond the telling in the confidence and affection of his fellow citizens. He died at his post in London.
Alfred de Bathe Brandon (1809-1886), was one of the finest of early pioneers. He arrived in the vessel "London" in August, 1840, and commenced practice at "Brandon's Corner," opposite the Government Buildings, in a building demolished in 1929 to make way for the war memorial. After Provincial Councils were set up, Mr. Brandon was made Provincial Solicitor and for the whole of the Council's existence, from 1853 to 1876, remained a member. He took a keen interest in education and was the first Chairman of the Wellington College Board of Governors. His son, Alfred de Bathe Brandon (1854-1938)followed in the father's legal footsteps and in 1893 was Mayor of the City." These excepts quoted from The Streets Of My City, by F. L. Irvine-Smith. (1948).
As for all our Wellington City caches, the GPS signal can not be completely relied on, so you may have a bit of a hunt. While attempting this you are likely to have muggles close by at ground level, as well as observing you from above, so your acting skills will need to be set to maximum so as to blend into the background and avoid any unwelcome attention- for you or the cache- thus the higher difficulty level. Please carefully replace everything just as you found it for the next cacher, and NO SPOILERS of the final location please.
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FR Pbeare
Va Cynva Cynva Fvtug