COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS.
(Ey Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day
The. Education Department has began the distribution of copper medals to the Slate school children in the colony to commemorate the Royal visit. The medal is a little larger than a shilling. On the front, is a representation of the Royal yacht wdth the inscription:— "H.M.s. Ophir, in which their Royal Highnesses came to New Zealand, June 1001." On the back are the words: —
'■Child, en's souvenir of the -visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall to New Zealand." One hundred and fifty thousand medals have been struck.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 131, 4 June 1901, Page 2
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