NEW HEALTH CREST
Departmental Symbol
The Department of Health has a new crest, which is gradually displacing its predecessor on official stationery and publications. The design is based on winning entries in a competition held in 1950. The new emblem is Attended to convey that the department is an organ of the New Zealand Government, discharging preventive and curative health functions over a wide area of the south Pacific.
A crown surmounts a circle divided into three 120-degree segments. Underneath the circle is the motto “Mens
sana in corpore sano” —"A sound mind in a sound body.” The crown, the traditional symbol of central govern, ment in the older Commonwealth countries, is in this case the crown of St. Edward.
The three segments of the circle are bounded by a ring bearing the words “Department of Health New Zealand.” The top segment carries four stars in a stylised version of the Southern Cross. The bottom left-hand segment pictures a sword, signifying the preventive health services. In the third segment is the symbol of curative medicine, the staff of Aesculapius with its entwined serpent.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29624, 21 September 1961, Page 4
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183NEW HEALTH CREST Press, Volume C, Issue 29624, 21 September 1961, Page 4
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