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Following the creation of the borough of Thames in 1874, a competition was held to design a borough seal, and the winning design was used for a hundred years. It comprised a shield which rested upon a mining head frame complete with a pulley wheel. the top support beam of the frame bearing the motto SPERO meaning I Hope. In the space above the top of the shield was a fully rigged sailing vessel, indicating shipping., Thames then having no land communications. The shield itself bears on its upper section an early steam locomotive; like the one named Jumping Jinny, drawing a carriage, for the mile long local railway of 1869, which was very early for New Zealand. The lower part of the shield showed a sailing vessel on a slipway, to convey the shipbuilding industry, and beneath it a circular saw blade, denoting sawmilling. On one side of the shield were a pick and shovel. these to indicate the mining industry, and on the other side a hammer and drill, representing engineering and mining. Below the shield was a Maori canoe and in the background were mounts whose shapes suggest a double allusion to the historic gold-bearing hills and the great mine tips. | Following the creation of the borough of Thames in 1874, a competition was held to design a borough seal, and the winning design was used for a hundred years. It comprised a shield which rested upon a mining head frame complete with a pulley wheel. the top support beam of the frame bearing the motto SPERO meaning I Hope. In the space above the top of the shield was a fully rigged sailing vessel, indicating shipping., Thames then having no land communications. The shield itself bears on its upper section an early steam locomotive; like the one named Jumping Jinny, drawing a carriage, for the mile long local railway of 1869, which was very early for New Zealand. The lower part of the shield showed a sailing vessel on a slipway, to convey the shipbuilding industry, and beneath it a circular saw blade, denoting sawmilling. On one side of the shield were a pick and shovel. these to indicate the mining industry, and on the other side a hammer and drill, representing engineering and mining. Below the shield was a Maori canoe and in the background were mounts whose shapes suggest a double allusion to the historic gold-bearing hills and the great mine tips. | ||