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REWARD TO YOUNG MEN HUTT DELEGATE'S VIEWPOINT •'Rits of meretricious jewellery." said Mr. K. Gibson, a Hutt Valley delegaie at the New Zealand Junior Chamber of Commerce Convention at Timaru, when a Canterbury delegate moved that an annual award of Distinguished Service Pins be made to the four outstanding New Zealanders (aged from 21 to 40), on the basis of their service to the community or nation —a procedure adopted successfully U\ America. Mr. Gibson added that badges and emblems were not a fitting recognition of public service. "We do not want the best-looking man from Harvard as an example, and 1 think that, self-abnegation has its own reward," he said. •( Other delegates emphasised that the American viewpoint on rewarding successful young men was different from that of New Zealand, and supported the Hutt Valley delegate. The Canterbury motion was lost.
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Hutt News, Volume 20, Issue 20, 16 October 1946, Page 7
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