“Hot” Money
The Governor-General (Sir Bernard Fergusson), speaking at the prize-giving of the Wellington High School, said he himself had recently been presented with a prize. “I was visiting a little school in Marlborough when a small boy, not more than five or six, came up to me and pressed a very hot penny into my hand,” Sir Bernard Fergusson said. He believed the boy gave the coin to him as “a sort of prize. He knew I was doing the best I could as the Queen’s representative,” Sir Bernard Fergusson said. He made a point of mentioning the penny presentation in the next letter he wrote to the Queen.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31234, 5 December 1966, Page 18
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