CENTENNIAL COINS AND MEDAL
Designs Being Considered
The Government’s approval has been given to proposals for the issuing of centennial coins and a centennial medal and special committees are considering designs, stated a report presented to the National .Centennial Council at its meeting in 'Wellington this week. Initiative was taken by the New Zealand Numismatic .Society and a subcommittee of the National Historical Committee on which the Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. G. C. Rhodda, and the secretary of the Numismatic Society, Mr. A. Sutherland, were represented, recommended to the Government :
That it issue at face value a centennial commemorative half-crown for general circulation during 1940. That if the Government was considering the completion of the coinage issue, the pennj’ and halfpenny bearing a standard design be issued for the first time during 1940. That the issue of a centennial medal on the lines of the Waitangi-Bledisloe medal be placed in the hands of the Numismatic Society and that the Government be asked to make an appropriate grant to the society for the productionof the medal.
These proposals were approved by the Government, the report stated.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 66, 10 December 1938, Page 10
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