SIDEY MEDAL.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20550, 19 May 1932, Page 8

SIDEY MEDAL.

DESIGN APPROVED. CONDITIONS GOVERNING AWARD DRAWN UP. i (press association telegbax.) | WELLINGTON, May 18. The final step in the movement to commemorate the part taken by the Hon. Sir Thomas Sidey in the passing of tfie Summertime Act by Parliament will bo taken at the annual meeting-of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute to-morrow, when the deeds and conditions attaching to the awarding of the Sidey medal will be signed. This award, it is hoped, will become one of the most notable in New Zealand. It will be given with a sum of money to a paper or other work considered to be the most outstanding contribution to the advantage not only of summertime, but also to the value of light and its allied properties to human welfare. The specific conditions attaching to the award will be made known at the meeting of the Board of Governors. Origin of Movement. The origin of the movement dates from the passing of the Act in 1927. As a result of shilling donations throughout the country the sum of £SOO was raised. This was handled by the Summertime Committee in Wellington, and it was later handed over to the New Zealand Institute, which wafe asked to devise a method for spending it usefully. Sir Thomas Sidey, who will be present at the meeting to-morrow, has contributed £l2O toward the cost of the medal. At the last annual meeting of the Institute it was reported .that Dr. Cockayne and Professor Kirk' had been asked to suggest a design for the medal. They suggested that the obverse should bear the donor in profile and the reverse side of the design' should represent the sun's rays from above, with the sun's disc or portion of it, while below on each side should be representations of Ceres and Hygeia (the Greek goddess of vegetation and health). These suggestions were approved by members of the Standing Committee and by Sir Thomas Sidey.