Photo: Andy Farnsworth

Inscription

ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION AND ON THIS SITE BY PERMISSION OF GOVERNOR HILL C.B. IN MEMORY OF FRED'K WESTON CARTER AGED 28 YEARS BARRISTER, ENSIGN OF VOLUNTEERS AND ELDEST SON OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THAT TIME WHO LOST HIS LIFE 26TH DEC'R A.D. 1869 IN THE GALLANT BUT UNSUCCESSFUL ENDEAVOUR TO SAVE FROM DROWNING TWO GIRLS NAMED BRUIN AND MARTIN WHO HAD FALLEN THROUGH THE ICE ON DEADMAN'S POND SIGNAL HILL ROAD A.D. 1870

Commemorates 1869–1870