CENTENNIAL MEDAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26478, 4 June 1947, Page 6

CENTENNIAL MEDAL

DESIGN COMMENDED The Otago Centennial Association has received a sample of the Centennial medal to be distributed to Otago school children next year, and executive members have expressed pleasure at the finished article, which was struck from the first die cut by the London engravers. The designer, Mr James Berry, of Wellington, also considers the general effect of the medal “very pleasing.” An order for 23,000 medals has been placed with J. R. Gaunt and Son, Ltd-, and they will be given to children attending all Otago schools up to and including Standard VI. “I think the general effect of the medal, finished in light bronze, is very pleasing, and is far superior to many cheap-looking commemorative medals which have Been produced in the past in white metal,” Mr Berry said in a letter to the Executive Committee. “I am instructed to inform you that it was moved and seconded at a meeting of the New Zealand Numismatic Society that the designer, engraver, and the Otago Centenmtl Committee be congratulated on the production of such a worth-while medal, forming a permanent record of the centennial of Otago. It was also noted with pleasure that the medal was not spoilt by having a hole punched in it. The hope was expressed that a largesize medal would also be produced, which would be eagerly sought _by numismatists and visitors to Otago.