LEATHER MEDALS.
With a view to emphasising and advertising the dignity of municipal councillors a proposal has been made by the Council of Subiaco the chief suburb of Perth that*£lo be extended out of the 3 per cent proportion of the rates allotted to extra expenses of theJMayor and councillors for the purchase of fcr councillors. On Wednesday night Cr. Brown moved "That the medallions be of leather and that tha [appropriations be reduced from £.lO| ( to 10s." If .the medals were of precious meta'i they might possibly find their way to pawnshops. > Leather medals be cheaper and quite as useful. They might be eyeletted and stamped with the corporation seal and equipped with a piece of lace to hang round councillors' necks ?or mounted £on corks—of which a free supply coujd be obtained in the '3,j per cent room.' The council ultimately decided *by six votes to five to do without medallions.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3212, 11 June 1909, Page 3
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153LEATHER MEDALS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3212, 11 June 1909, Page 3
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