Makers: Pamela and Margaret Southey

Panel number: 158

Petition Sheet Number: 192

Person honouring: Geogina Spankie Aikman and May Campbell Aikman

Relationship to makers: Unknown. 

Georgina Spankie May (or Mary – records differ) Aikman was born in 1869 to parents Colin Campbell Aikman and Isabella Aikman (née Williams). Georgina’s mother arrived on one of the first four ships to Canterbury, ‘The Randolph’. 

Her father was a businessman who specialised in importing and auctioning timber. After he was declared bankrupt in 1870 he worked as an auctioneer for Robert Wilkin. Later in life, Georgina moved north to Tauranga, where she died aged 91.

Panel materials: No info.