SIDEY MEMORIAL MEDAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21648, 19 May 1932, Page 8

SIDEY MEMORIAL MEDAL

VALUE OF DAYLIGHT SAVING THE SUGGESTED DESIGN (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 18. The final step in the movement to commemorate the part taken by Sir Thomas Sidey in passing the Summer Time Act by Parliament will be taken at the annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute to-morrow, when the deeds and conditions attaching to the awarding of the Sidey medal will be signed. This award, it is hoped, will become one of the most notable in New Zealand. It will be given with a sum of money to the paper or other work considered to be the most outstanding contribution to the advantages not only of summer time but also to tlie value of light and its allied properties to human welfare. The specific conditions attaching to the award will be made known at the meeting of the Board of Governors.

The origin of the movement dates from the passing of the Act in 1927. As the result of Is donations throughout the country, the sum of £SOO was raised. This was handled by the Summer Time Committee in Wellington, and it was later handed over to the New Zealand Institute, which was asked to devise a method for spending it usefully. Sir Thomas Sidey. who will bo present at the function to-morrow, has himself contributed £l2O towards the cost of the medal.

At, the last annual meeting of the institute it was reported that Dr Cockayne and Professor Kirk had been asked to suggest, a design for the medal. They suggested that the obverse should bear a likeness of the donor in profile and the reverse side of the design should represent the sun’s rays from above, with the sun’s disc or portion of it, while below on each side should be representations of Ceres and Hygeia (the Greek goddesses of vegetation and health). These suggestions were approved by members of the Stardipg Committee and by Sir Thomas Sidey.