MYSTERY BUTTON.
SOUTH AFRICAN ORIGIN ? A suggested solution to the button which is mystifying officials of the Hawke's Bay Museum and Art Gallery, where a collection of war-time souvenirs is on show, has been forwarded by Mr. C. J. Blakev, of Mount Eden. In an item in the "Star" on Monday it was stated that the button bore a centrepiece of a winged wheel with six arrow heads reaching out from the rear of the wheel. Under the design was the lettering "N.Z.A.S.M." Mr. Blakev states that when the i Transvaal was a Dutch republic the rail-1 ways were owned by a Dutch company named Ncderland Zuidcn Africaan Spoorwek Maatsehappy. In English this is the Netherlands South African Railway Company. Each unit of the company's roiling stock was stamped with the companv's initials—N.Z.A.S.M. These initials, with the wheel, were also stamped upon officials' uniform buttons. Possibly the button was brought back as a souvenir by someone at the Boer War.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 127, 1 June 1938, Page 11
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