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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1609, 14 February 1884, Page 2

We clip the following from our local contemporary

It is asserted that the new medals of . the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural .Association; "were jnannfac; toed by a Melbourne firm, as those obtained last year from Wollißgton were found on, examination to bo ofinferior quality,"; It is' perhaps as well, that the manufacturing jewellers of tho colony should bo made aware that the Committee of the Association is npt responsible for this remaikabl|| olumsy 1 apology and subtorfuge,. Thcro is more tliari one firm of jewellers capable ,of turnftig out medals .in New Zealand, and another excuse for sending work out of the polony willhavo to bo invented. Our contemporary feels soro perhaps beoanso ccrtafn Wellington jewellers do not advertise with him, but i£ he had any regard for the -Association and its, office bearers he would alfiw them to make then: own explanation, seeing tint like Handy Andy when ho undertakes a deli- ; cateand difficult duty he invarubjy makes'i mess otit, . ' " I

The fact on which our assertion was founded was a simple one, which was within the knowledge of the editor of oui 1 contemporary, who was .present when a leading member of the Pastoral Committee stated that the medals obtained from Wellington were found, when examined, to contain a baser metal than thev purported to represent, "Wo' leave with pleasure to ,our contemporary the delicate and difficult duty of defending the manufacturers of pewter medals. : .