“A NOTABLE LANDMARK"
It may seem at first thought a comparatively 'unimportant incident in the life of the community that the New Zealand Numismatic Society should for its first medal select a token in commemoration of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and the gift of their Excellencies Lord and Lady Bledisloe to the nation of the Waitangi Treaty site and estate. His Excellency, however, has placed the event in its right perspective in his acknowledgment of the. gift to himself on Wednesday of the first copy of the medal., “Coins and medals,” said Lord Bledisloe, “are said to be the most, imperishable of all antiquities. Their striking or minting has always in the world’s history marked stages in national progress and artistic achievement. The striking of this society’s first medal may therefore be regarded as a notable landmark in the history of this Dominion.” The honour to Lord Bledisloe of this permanent record of his services and gifts to the Dominion to which he will presently bid a regretful farewell is a distinction worthily and splendidly earned, and the New Zealand Numismatic Society is to be complimented upon so hajjpy an inspiration.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 115, 8 February 1935, Page 10
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194“A NOTABLE LANDMARK" Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 115, 8 February 1935, Page 10
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