BIRTH OF DOMINION

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20957, 9 November 1939, Page 9

BIRTH OF DOMINION

COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL (Special to Times) WELLINGTON, Wednesday With the co-operation of the Government, the New Zealand Numismatic Society has issued an attractive medal in silver and in bronze to commemorate the Centennial of New Zealand as a British possession. In announcing yesterday the details of the medal, the Minister in Charge of Centennial Celebrations, the Hon. W. E. Parry, said that the design fittingly commemorated an important event in the history of the Dominion. One side of the medal depicts the largest type of Maori canoe used in 1840, and a tree fern in bold relief; the other side shows two of the most modern forms of transport, the Awatea, and a flying-boat overhead. The medal has been produced by Messrs Mayer and Kean, Wellington; the die-sinker was Mr G. Whitehouse; and the designs were prepared by Mr T. H. Jenkin, Invercargill, and Mr J. Berry, Wellington. The diameter of the medal is liin. Mr Pan-:/ said that in submitting specimens of the medal, the chairman of the Centennial Medal Committee, Mr Johannes Andersen, had referred in complimentary terms to the wholehearted co-operation of various Government departments and, notably, to that of the Post and Telegraph Department. A limited number of medals is to be on sale at the Post Office at the exhibition, and later medals will be obtainable at the main post offices throughout the Dominion.