GENEROUS ACT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 7 June 1923, Page 5

GENEROUS ACT

GENERAL COWANS' MEDALS.

RESTORED TO WIDOW

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, June 6. A happy sequel has come out of Lady Cowans' decision to sell her husband's orders and decorations. The manager of the West End shop in which they were displayed informed her that they were purchased by a stranger, who said: "She is to have them during her lifetime, and afterwards, as she has no children, I want them given to the nation." ■■

Lady Cowans said she was deeply grateful to the mystery man, adding: "I want it understood that I tried to keep the medals. They were sold for my creditors, and I do not receive a penny." The decorations had been in the shop only a few hours before three offers were made to purchase and restore them. i